A Quotes
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“A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.”
“A team takes on the personality of the head coach.”
“A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.”
“A team that is always fun with witty sense of humor. We help each other around a lot and help push each other to be better”
“A team that is built on tenacity is always bound to achieve the best.”
“A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.”
Source: What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.”
“A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.”
“A tear. But only one.”
Source: In Limbo
“A tear can be shed in this place on several occasions. Assuming that beauty is the distribution of light in the fashion most congenial to one's retina, a tear is an acknowledgment of the retina's, as well as the tear's, failure to retain beauty. On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound. It is the deterioration of the greater speed to the lesser that moistens one's eye. Because one is finite, a departure from this place always feel final; leaving it behind is leaving it forever. For leaving is banishment of the eye to the provinces of the other senses; at best, to the crevices and crevasses of the brain. For the eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention. And to the eye, for purely optical reasons, departure is not the body leaving the city but the city abandoning the pupil. Likewise, disappearance of the beloved, especially a gradual one, causes grief no matter who, and for what peripatetic reason, is actually in motion. As the world goes, this city is the eye's beloved. After it, everything is a letdown. A tear is the anticipation of the eye's future.”
Source: Watermark
“A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.”
Source: Chronic Passions
“A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.”
“A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907
“A tear may not weigh much on a scale, but it is heavy enough to crush a heart under its load.”
Source: You Came Like Hope
“A tear rolled down my cheek
And more came down
Until tears rolled down like a stream.
My eyes were blind with tears for you.
They washed my eyes till I could see.”
Source: Anthology of Poetry and Verse Written by Students in Creative Writing Classes and Clubs During the First Three Years of Operation (1962-1965) of the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“A tear rolled down my cheek. This week had flown by too fast. I wasn’t ready to pop our bubble yet. But it was already popped. All the decisions I’d been putting off, rushed in, demanding my attention.”
Source: Rent a Boyfriend
“A tear slipped from eye, as I stood helpless beside Kiran. “They have done nothing wrong, except fight for the freedom you have stolen from them, from all of us!” I shouted back, unable to stay silent when my friends stood at his mercy.
“I give you freedom, the freedom to live your life as you please,” Lucan challenged, tilting his chin with pride and sincerity. “I ask nothing of you, except for your loyalty. I am the king, it is the least of what I deserve,” Lucan turned to address the kingdom, his argument ringing through the air.
“Then why is it only your bloodline that is allowed immortality?” I argued, taking a step forward. “Why do the rest of our people suffer from the separation of races? Why are the Shape-shifters exiled by penalty of death? What have they done? What is their crime? Are you afraid to share true immortality? Are you so scared of a people that realize they don’t need a king?” I turned to face the crowd too, hoping to empower them with my words.”
Source: Endless Magic
“A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth”
“A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.”
“A tear-drop of green.”
“A teardrop glittered like a diamond in the ring of her eye. When they're at the bottom, people fill their eyes with beautiful things. The world is full of art, it's just a matter of knowing how to look around you and then surrendering to inexhaustible whisperings, to small details, to longing and desire.”
“A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.”
Source: For Those Who Hurt
“A tearless heart is a callous heart.”
“A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.”
“A teaspoonful of peace is all we need to irrigate our hope and purify our soul.”
“A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.”
“A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.”
Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
“A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.”
“A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.”
Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files
“A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.”
Source: The Perfect Photograph
“A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.”
“A technician : it's the one who always see new components on the store, but still care about the old ones.
A technician : it's the one who always try to fix problems and never think to give up.
A technician : it's a man who cares about what he has, try to update it and never throw it.
a TECHNICIAN it's a LOYAL man.”
“a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a Doctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.”
Source: The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale
“A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, not captivated by notions of victory or defeat, will liberate you. Mind fixes your senses and keeps you centered. Mind is the key to wondrous power and supreme clarity.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.”
Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“A technique is a trick that works.”
“A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.”
“A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income”
“A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model.”
“A tecnologia não é uma coisa má. Se soubermos o que queremos fazer com as nossas vidas, a tecnologia pode ajudar-nos a alcançá-lo. Mas se não soubermos o que queremos da vida, é muito fácil a tecnologia condicionar os nossos objetivos e controlar a nossa vida.”
Source: 21 lições para o século 21
“A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.”
“A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.”
“A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.”
“A teenage boy with a Mohawk sat across from me, sneering. I’d seen that look before. Why was it a problem to knit in public?
“My grandma knits.”
I ignored him.
“So what are you making, Grandma?” Mohawk’s voice was ugly.
I arched my eyebrow. “A cashmere cock ring. Your grandma ever knit one of those?”
The kid’s eyes grew wide, and he suddenly became very interested in a four-year-old issue of Teen Vogue.”
Source: 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy
“A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest.”
“A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?”
“A teenager boy is a monstrous cyborg, an unfeeling, beastly machine, not fully human, and not housebroken. Rumbustious teenage boys are an infernal organism disdainful of everything, yet intent of contributing to human evolution.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and can function like, get pregnant like, can party like, get arrested like, and die just like - an adult. She thinks she's making decisions as a grown-up with a fully developed brain and, in a case like mine, a fully developed faith. She's wrong about both of those beliefs. But chances are, she will not realize what a child she was until, as a full-grown adult, she knows and loves a teenager.”
Source: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
“A teenager’s nature is not laziness, their preferred state is not ignorance, and it is not necessary for extrinsic motivation to be delivered by trained professionals in order to prevent them from bareknuckle boxing under a bridge in exchange for drugs and money.”
Source: A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School