A Quotes
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“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.”
Source: Software Testing Techniques
“A testimony is a conviction, a quiet inward certainty of the reality of the living God, of the divinity of His Beloved Son, of the restoration of Their work in this time. It demands that we do what He has asked us to do.”
“A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and it cannot be given as a present or inherited from our ancestors. We cannot depend on the testimonies of other people. We need to know for ourselves. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, ‘Every Latter-day Saint has the responsibility to know for himself or herself with a certainty beyond doubt that Jesus is the resurrected, living Son of the living God.”
“A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.”
“A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.”
“A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.”
“A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A text is evolutionary by its very nature.”
“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.”
“A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used. If it is just taken out of a context and presented as a sort of object, which is what - you know, which is a contemporary art idea, you know. It is like an old surrealist idea or an old cubist idea to take something out of context and put it in a completely different context. And it sort of gives it a different meaning and creates another world, another kind of world in which we enter.”
“A text message visible in his inbox: You’re missing the Independence Day Speech, auto-signed with Ren. Yuan ignores it.
The next text plays in his brain when he is not looking at the CRAB: Come on! The war-hero can’t miss the speech in Alphatech when the war hero himself is its owner! Ren.”
Source: The High Auction
“A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.”
Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness
“A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.”
“A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.”
“A thankful heart, a grateful soul.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A thankful heart cannot be cynical.”
“A thankful heart is a happy heart.”
“A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]”
“A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.”
“A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.”
Source: Poetaster
“A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.”
“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.”
“A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived”
“A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.”
“A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.”
“A theater without beer is just a museum”
“A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are”
“A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.”
“A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.”
“A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.”
“A theism that denies theology is deism.”
“A theist can't empirically prove that God exists but he believes in God because no one can allegedly disprove God's existence. By his logic, you must believe in anything you can't disprove. That means all things are real until disproved--including the tooth fairy, the Loch Ness Monster, Santa Claus, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc.”
Source: How to Prove God Does Not Exist
“A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.”
“A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.”
Source: Scoundrel time
“A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.”
“A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.”
Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
“A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.”
“A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God”
“A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.”
“A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.”
“A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who ‘looks on all things through suffering and the cross’ is constrained to speak the truth…it will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect.”
“A theologian’s epistemology controls his interpretation of the Bible. If his epistemology is not Christian, his exegesis will be systematically distorted. If he has no epistemology at all, his exegesis will be unsystematically distorted.”
Source: The Incarnation
“A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.”
Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk
“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.”
“A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.”
Source: Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II