A Quotes
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“A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
Source: Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals
“A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
“A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.”
“A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.”
“A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“A taker doesn’t just take; they consume. They don't have limits. They’ll drain you dry and still look at you like you’re the problem for running empty. No matter how much love, how much patience, how much forgiveness you pour into them, it’s always expected and never enough. It never will be.”
Source: Shattered Reflections: Behind the Smile
“A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.”
“A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.”
“A tale in everything.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
“A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."”
“A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.”
Source: Blade of Tyshalle
“A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.”
“A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.”
“A tale within a Tweet, how sweet!!”
“A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France
“A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.”
Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
“A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.”
“A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.”
“A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.”
“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
Source: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
“A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.”
“A talent is a gift from God.”
Source: 25 Things you Must Have Before age 25
“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”
“A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“A talent not shared is the same as a gift never offered.”
Source: The Kodach Secrets: The Book of Real-Life Transformation
“A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.”
“A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur.”
Source: Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
“A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with it's very important.”
“A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
“A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.”
Source: Ht Develop Slf Con
“A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.”
“A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.”
“A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.”
“A talking computor with an attitude problem? Haven't I seen that in a dozen b-grade sci-fi flicks?" "Where do you think I got the idea?”
“A talking mongoose, one must admit, is a more captivating figure than the typical Charlie McCarthy knockoff.”
Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
“A tall and shirtless Gabriel looked down at her. He was clad only in his underwear, which made him look slightly sexy and slightly ridiculous.
His fists were clenched, and Julia saw the tendons standing out in his magnificent arms.
"Don't you remember what happened last night, Gabriel?"
"No, thankfully I don't. And get up! You're on your knees more than the average whore." He spoke through clenched teeth, glaring at her servile form.”
“A tall blonde entered the room, wearing a yellow sash that marked her as advocate. Two men followed her, carrying papers. She was lean and long-legged, with a graceful neck and nice ankles, and William took a minute to watch her come down the aisle. She looked high-strung and difficult. Still, good legs. Mmm, smelled of mimosa, too. Expensive scent. Cerise smelled better, when clean.”
“A tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce
churro. High in the sticky clouds of time, he kept
repeating churro while eating a churro. How to say
this made you want to live? No hand to hold
still here it was: someone giving someone comfort
and someone memorizing hard how to ask for it again.”
“A tall woman with ass-length, honey-blonde hair had entered the lobby and was barking orders at an entourage of men who toted her Gucci leather luggage. Her dog, a white Westie, was barking, adding to the commotion. “Justin!” the woman chastised the man who held the door open for her. “Icky snow on my feet. My Manolo Blahniks. Oh my God! These shoes are a work of art! Do somethinggg!”
Source: The Big Sugarbush
“A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.”
Source: The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories
“A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.”
Source: Tuned to Baseball
“A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.”
“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”
“A tan is the best accessory for any outfit!”
“A tangent that departs from the real to the imaginary: pure consciousness does and does not transcend the body, and I believe this after hearing that my mother felt suicidal after she took her medicines for weight loss and her biggest regrets in life came crushing down on her for three days in a row. This is the best of what I have learnt in my years of fascination for science and knowledge, and to make you grasp this takes fullness of life: in hydrology, the wet and the dry, and the hot and the cold always co-exist, but they are also in flux and are also stable: all depending on the reference point of analysis. Consciousness beyond matter, and consciousness tied to matter co-exist in everyplace at different scales, and sometimes even in the same scale. Tao te ching (the way and its power) that fascinated Lao Tzu; the calculus of infinitesimals; the wonderful infinity of the number line and fractals that fascinated Ramanujan and Mandelbrot; the horn of the rhinoceros that fascinated Dali, thermodynamic and hydrodynamic equilibriums that fascinate all scientists, the surety of a fading perfume smell or the permanence of a shattered mirror that is easy to understand to anyone; the concepts of anti-fragility, entropy, volatility, randomness, disorder are all intimately tied to this. Consciousness is constantly attainted and broken all around us all the time, and we rarely stop to think about this because it infinitesimally evades us. Here is where I begin to stretch this and I can't understand it and it is very discouraging -- prudence, temperance and courage -- some of the highest virtues may also be related to this. When you are prepared, it is consciousness. When we are unprepared for it, and this hits you without hurting you, it is magic and strength. Else, perhaps death.”
“A tangible sense of excruciation is caused by an unfair and cruel punishment. However, this problem can be resolved if people as a whole crowd courageously speak up and propose for a reform to balance their governments' power.”
“A tank. His wife had once called him that. He rolled right over whatever life put in front of him.”
Source: Vigil
“A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la rêvasserie. Il prend des petites mélodies en route qu’on lui demandait pas. Il vous revient tout maquillé de pleurs et de repentirs en vadrouillant. C’est pas sérieux.”
Source: Guerre
“A tanto tempo trancado no armário, encarcerado na carne; enfim verbalizo-me dos lábios até teu ouvido atento.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A Taoist is a man who does only that which is absolutely necessary. His life is almost like a telegram.”
Source: Tao: The Pathless Path