A Quotes
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“A sweet wedding cake does not guarantee a sweet marriage.”
“A Sweet Woman from a War-Torn Country”
In her exile, they often describe her as that ‘sweet woman from a war-torn country.’
They don’t know she loved smelling roses, picking spring wildflowers, and bringing them home after long walks.
They don’t know about the first kiss her lover stole during a church power outage on that Easter evening— before the generators came on.
They don’t know the long hours she spent under the ancient walnut tree in her village, waiting for her grandfather’s call to share freshly baked pita with ghee and honey.
They don’t know about her grandmother’s mixed grains, prepared each year before Easter fasting began.
In exile, they try to be kind, telling her she now lives in a ‘safe haven.’ They assume her silence comes from poor language skills or simple agreement with them.
They don’t know life’s shocks have silenced her forever. Now she presses her ear against the cold window glass of her apartment, listening to the wind’s mournful cry outside.
They remind her she’s among people who honor all values, beliefs, religions, and ethnicities— but she has learned it’s all too late.
She no longer needs assurances. Occasionally, all she asks for is a sincere hand on her shoulder or around her neck, to remind her that nothing lasts, that this too shall pass.
[Published on April 7, 2023 on CounterPunch.org]”
“A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.”
“A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.”
“a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“A swing is like a car. You've got the fan belt, carburetor, pistons, spark plugs, fuel pump. If any part isn't working, the car doesn't run. Same way with hitting.”
“A swirl of dust and dirt picked up from the shadows that fell over everything in this grungy corner of the world. The dancing movement was hypnotizing. The sand and grit had rested long enough to have drifted into obscurity. But fate had different plans, and this gust of wind had lifted them and turned their obscure and unknown existence into a chaotic tempest of action that could not be ignored.”
Source: Torn
“a swirl of smoke trapped in a glass bottle, an odd unlabelled thing unknowingly put up for sale.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“A sword age, a wind age, a wolf age. No longer is there mercy among men.”
Source: The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
“A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.”
“A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.”
“A sword can only pierce the body, but words can pierce the soul.”
“A sword forged true in hammer and flame
Flies sure and swift
A heart forged in battle and strife
Cuts deeper than any blade”
Source: Furyborn
“A sword in one's hand can be used as a link to one's heart - you hurt only if you are hurt yourself and want others to share your pain, and you protect if you have strong bonds with others you want to maintain...”
Source: Zodiac Circle
“A sword sword owes his lord the truth.”
Source: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage”
“A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.”
Source: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.”
Source: Complete Poems
“A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.”
“A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.”
Source: The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers
“A symbol of humanity obsessed with evil, lost in a cult whose emblem is literally a celebration of the moment it was brought into the world.”
Source: In Limbo
“A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.”
“A symbolic victory is still a victory.”
“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
Source: The odyssey
“A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.”
“A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.”
“A sympathy in choice.”
“A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.”
Source: Brandy of the Damned: Discoveries of a Musical Eclectic
“A symphony is no joke.”
“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”
“A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.”
“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.”
“A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.”
“A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.”
“A synthesis—an abstraction, chunk, or gist idea—is a neural pattern. Good chunks form neural patterns that resonate, not only within the subject we’re working in, but with other subjects and areas of our lives. The abstraction helps you transfer ideas from one area to another. That’s why great art, poetry, music, and literature can be so compelling. When we grasp the chunk, it takes on a new life in our own minds—we form ideas that enhance and enlighten the neural patterns we already possess, allowing us to more readily see and develop other related patterns.
Once we have created a chunk as a neural pattern, we can more easily pass that chunked pattern to others, as Cajal and other great artists, poets, scientists, and writers have done for millennia, Once other people grasp that chunk, not only can they use it, but also they can more easily create similar chunks that apply to other areas in their lives—an important part of the creative process.”
Source: A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
“A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.”
Source: Writings on Physics and Philosophy
“A system can not understand itself.”
Source: The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
“A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect”
“A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.”
“A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.”
“A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.”
“A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.”
“A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.”
Source: William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses
“A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.”
“A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time... The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.”
Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“A ‘system’ is always something finite, limited, transitory, a too narrow framework for the infinite dialectical movement of the world, and even in the case of the great philosophies it was always their ‘system’ which most quickly became out of date; what remained of them was always the dialectical content which was often hidden in their work in spite of the ‘system’.”
Source: Dialectical Materialism and Communism