A Quotes
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“A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.”
“A thief believes everybody steals.”
“A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.”
“A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.”
Source: Healology
“A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.”
Source: Selected poems
“A thief might steal from anyone.
Why he’s stealing from you is what you need to understand.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“A thief never becomes an owner.”
“A thief never makes a noise by accident.”
“A thief plays the game only when they think they’ll win. A pirate plays the game even when they think they’ll lose.”
Source: A Conjuring of Light
“A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.”
Source: Zen in English literature and oriental classics
“A thief will steal from you-but will never allow you near enough to steal from him”
“A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.”
“A thin, flexible, layer of ice had already formed on the water, and the undulating movement caught the light of the setting sun, like a sparkling curtain of light billowing across the bay. Connie tried to capture the moment in her mind as the thin ice shimmered in oranges and reds as it moved between already forming pieces of thicker ice.”
Source: From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life
“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”
Source: The Light That Failed
“A thin line between the haters and the ones who love us.
A thinner line from the freedom and the foul judges,
In the streets where the snake niggas hold grudges.”
“A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.”
Source: The First Tycoon
“A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.”
Source: Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life
“A thin, polished woman walks in. She sticks out immediately in her expensive looking navy dress, shiny bag and shoes that probably cost more than I make in a month. My breath leaves me when I see that her arm is draped around a younger version of herself. That hair, it's pulled back way too tight now, but I'd run my hands through it a thousand times before. That face, now in layer of makeup that makes her look older than I remember, I'd held it in my calloused hands and kissed those lips goodbye over a year ago. She said she'd never see me again and I learned to accept that. She destroyed me, and I'd moved on.
No. Not her. She's not from here anymore. I don't know who that person is anymore.”
Source: My Heart for Yours
“A thin smile spreads, and the image morphs into that of Lucifer. “You will not succeed. Darkness always prevails.”
“A thing about poetry is, It takes cuts and pain to bleed words. The deeper the wound is, the more you bleed. And eventually, you will start falling in love with it. But the saddest part is, sometimes there comes a moment when you start to feel that all those wounds on your soul are not enough. And you start cutting yourself deeper, forgetting when to stop.”
“A thing born of destiny is less stable than a thing built by hard work.”
“A thing can be imperfect according to some standard, but not in itself.”
“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”
Source: Watership Down
“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.”
Source: Watership Down
“A thing can only live through a pious illusion.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche
“A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
“A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.”
Source: Intimate notebook, 1840-1841
“A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.”
“A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing”
“A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.”
“A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.”
“A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“A thing is important if anyone think it important.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.”
Source: Bride of the Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other Stories
“A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.”
“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
“A thing is never learned until we master it.”
“A thing is never seen as it really is.”
“A thing is never untold, It is always misperceived.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
Source: Confessions (Second Edition)
“A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.”
“A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.”
“A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works
“A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.”
Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning
“A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.”
“A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.”
Source: The Poppet and the Lune
“A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.”