A Quotes
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“A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.”
Source: Industrial Society and Its Future
“A survey asked married women when they most want to have sex. 84 per cent of them said right after their husband is finished.”
“A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.”
Source: The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning
“A survey has shown that the average man has had sex in a car 15 times. Something to keep in mind next time you're looking for a used car.”
“A survey of more than three hundred international policymakers found that 90 per cent of them still believed that personal motivation – aka willpower – was a very strong cause of obesity.6 This is absurd.
It makes no sense to presume that there has been a sudden collapse in willpower across all ages and ethnic groups and each sex since the 1960s. What has changed most since the sixties is not our collective willpower but the marketing and availability of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods.”
Source: The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
“A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.”
“A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.”
“A survey was done on people who LIE, but the results were unreLIEable”
Source: "Quote Me" the Book of All New Quotes
“A sus veintisiete añitos, sin la menor experiencia laboral -no digamos empresarial o administrativa-. puesto que no había trabajado un minuto de su vida, Castro 'sabe' cómo resolver en un abrir y cerrar de ojos el problema de la vivienda, de la salud, de la industrialización, de la instantánea creación de riquezas.”
Source: Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano
“A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy
grew in my mind,
which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes,
as though my thoughts
hissed and spat on my scalp.
My bride’s breath soured, stank
in the grey bags of my lungs.
I’m foul mouthed now, foul tongued,
yellow fanged.
There are bullet tears in my eyes.
Are you terrified?
Be terrified.
It’s you I love,
perfect man, Greek God, my own;
but I know you’ll go, betray me, stray
from home.
So better by far for me if you were stone.
I glanced at a buzzing bee,
a dull grey pebble fell
to the ground.
I glanced at a singing bird,
a handful of dusty gravel
spattered down.
I looked at a ginger cat,
a housebrick
shattered a bowl of milk.
I looked at a snuffling pig,
a boulder rolled
in a heap of shit.
I stared in the mirror.
Love gone bad
showed me a Gorgon.
I stared at a dragon.
Fire spewed
from the mouth of a mountain.
And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue
and your girls, your girls.
Wasn’t I beautiful?
Wasn’t I fragrant and young?
Look at me now.
- Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy -”
Source: The World's Wife
“A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.”
“A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.”
“A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.”
“A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.”
“A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour”
“A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.”
“A sustainable future is not an option; it is an imperative if we wish to inherit a world worth living in.”
“A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.”
“A sustainable local economy is one that enables the local community to be sustainable in all of its aspects in the long run. If the local economy is not sustainable, its future has been traded away -- literally -- to people at a distance, for the proverbial bowl of stew.”
Source: Live Close to Home
“A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.”
“A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is imperative to good writing - I just don't know how you can be a serious writer without it.”
“a sve vreme sam mislila
dok smo hodali
da je najtužnije u smrti
ne sama smrt
već sunčan dan
naspram mračne rake”
Source: Sve drveće sva deca i svi bicikli u meni
“A sve što nadživi smrt jeste jedna mala ništavna pobeda nad večnošću ništavila - dokaz ljudske veličine i Jahvine milosti. Non omnis moriar.”
Source: Hourglass
“A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.”
“A swan is beautiful, even if mocked by ugly ducks.”
“A swan looking at the world from a misty calm lake is like a creature looking at the world from space! All he sees is a large herd of people governed by the most stupid and most inadequate people!”
“A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.”
“A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!”
“A sweaty bum crack will become the norm in a climate changed world.”
“A sweaty butt crack is my trigger to turn on my air conditioning.”
“A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.”
“A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.”
“A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.”
“A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.”
Source: Collected Pruse
“A sweet aroma blooms in the mouth like a fresh flower, while the tongue dances with delight at the crispy crunchiness of the apple! Just one bite and I've already fallen into a fantasyland!"
"Not only that, this fragrance! It's precisely what I thought! It's 'Damask Rose'!"
"Damask rose? Like, actual roses?"
"Yep! These roses right here. They're one of my favoritest flowers. They have such a pretty scent."
Even out of the many thousands of rose varieties in the world, the Damask is renowned for its beautiful fragrance! In fact, some people even call it the 'Queen of Roses'! An ancient strain, it's said even Cleopatra enjoyed damask roses, sprinkling their petals in her bath.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 28 [Shokugeki no Souma 28]
“A sweet attractive kind of grace,
A full assurance given by looks,
Continual comfort in a face,
The lineaments of Gospel books--
I trow that countenance cannot lye
Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.”
“A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; I trow that countenance cannot lie, Where thoughts are legible in the eye. Was never eye, did see that face, Was never ear, did hear that tongue, Was never mind, did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long- But eyes, and ears, and ev'ry thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught. [trow; believe or think]”
“A sweet attractive kinde of grace,
A full assurance given by lookes,
Continuall comfort in a face
The lineaments of Gospell bookes.”
“A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.”
“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction.”
“A SWEET disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness :
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction :
An erring lace which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher :
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusedly :
A winning wave (deserving note)
In the tempestuous petticoat :
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility :
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.”
“A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.”
“A sweet little baby girl sleeping just next to me.
Her attractive brows on the eyes are like rainbow in the skies.
Seeing repeatedly her Cute little face, which is undoubtedly full of grace.
Ofcourse I am trying to sleep, but out of sheet again and again prefering to peep.
Stopping myself in continuity, thought of writing the experience once properly awake
But I Can’t doze sound, since I wanna jot it down right away without any mistake
Lucky I am, to have this small yet best blessing everyday on my side
A proud father is rhyming today for his beloved daughter which he consider his pride
A sweet little baby girl sleeping just next to me.
Endless Gratitude lord for reminding to rhyme even when I am half asleep !!”
“A sweet memories is a galore of joy that makes you blithe and nimble.”
“A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth”
Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume
“A sweet surrender like a lullaby
came to me through your seafaring eyes.”
Source: Your Mother Is A Storm
“A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.”
“A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.”