A Quotes
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“A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.”
“A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!" He covered his face. His troops hit the ground. When the thing did not explode, Polybotes bent down cautiously and picked it up. He roared in outrage. "A Ding Dong? You dare insult me with a Ding Dong?" He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light.”
“A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.”
“A tiny fly can choke a big man.”
“A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.”
“A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.”
“A tiny home with love was better than a world without it.”
Source: The Firebrand Legacy
“A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge me. I always remember going up to visit someone in prison, and this woman was sitting there. She was looking at me, growling a bit, and I could imagine what she was thinking: "There's a pedophile!" Anyway, I later discovered about her character. And I'll tell you, it outweighed anything I'd ever done.'
'What had she done?' I ask.
'Shoplifting,' says Tam.
There is silence.”
“A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!”
“A tiny orb rested in the center of the pale green pillowcase. She picked it up.
The orb was smaller than a marble, but bigger than a pearl, and it was unnaturally cold to the touch. Opal-like colors swirled beneath the surface: pale blues and greens and creamy whites.
Emeline stared for several seconds, unable to catch her breath. Knowing what this was despite every part of her that screamed it wasn't true.
The mark of a tithe paid.”
Source: Edgewood
“A tiny part of me felt like I'd won the man lottery and here I was both counting and spending the money. Our skin agreed. We pressed our luck—first his, then mine, then ours—until we had smoothed our way into the thick of it, until nothing else was possible except to get through to each other, in and on through each other, until we eased into the other side.”
Source: The Princess Diarist
“A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.”
“A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.”
“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”
“A tiny spark ignites a flame, just as a helping hand can do the same”
“A tiny thread of help is strong
enough for putting together a
tearing life.”
Source: Long Live Life: A Gentle Philosophy for Meaning, Happiness, and Human Connection
“A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section.”
“A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.”
“A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.”
“A tire spins aimlessly, being pulled a different direction by forces larger and stronger and with little consideration of its wasted effort. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't leave the road you're on.”
Source: On Angels and Rabbit Holes
“A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.”
“A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake
and yell to waken him.
Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stir
of sandy, red bullfights,
of powder-blasts in the air
and carnival delights.
Yet still his wife was in despair
in a dusty room so dim,
for she knew death was a whore
not far from tempting him.”
“A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.”
“A tiszteletes átvirrasztotta az éjszakát, amiben nincsen semmi rendkívüli, túl gyakran kerüli el az álom mostanában, és olyankor úgy tűnik, teljesen mindegy, hogy mennyire fáradt, amint lehajtja a fejét és lehunyja a szemét, rögtön újra teljesen éber lesz. Ilyenkor aztán forgolódik, imákat darál, és régi rigmusokat, próbálja megnyugtatni a lelkét és magához csalogatni az álmot, de mindhiába: mindenki más alszik, ő pedig ébren van, megfosztva az álom kegyelmétől, megfosztva Isten jóságától, és joggal: a házban ténfereg, vagy a dolgozószobájában ül, és az olvasásban keres némi társaságot, vagy a levélírásban, fordításban, egy korty szeszben, és ezek az órák lehetnének akár kellemesek is, mégis, unalmas estéről estére, éjszakáról éjszakára, évről évre egyedül ülni, amíg az ember öregszik, és egyre közelebb sodródik a halálhoz. Ám amikor a fiú és a postás így váratlanul megjelentek, Kjartan megrettent a kopogásra; azt gondolta, valami gonosz lény jött, hogy elvigye, de aztán azt mondta magának, ne légy már ilyen gyerekes; ettől függetlenül azért vonakodva állt föl az íróasztal mellől, majd odament az ajtóhoz, kinyitotta, odakint pedig lám, két emver állt, és velük a posta a nagyvilágból, égi áldás, amiről azonban kiderült, hogy alig képes többre, mint hogy elterüljön a padlón, mint egy lusta eszű állat. Kjartan éktelenül káromkodna, ha merne, Isten azonban felette áll minden időjárásnak és minden embernek, mindent hall, és nem felejt, a végítélet napján pedig behajtja rajtunk minden egyes gondolatunkat és szavunkat, minden érintést, és minden eseményt. Néha kimerítő, vagy egyenesen lehangoló, hogy egy ilyen Isten áll felettünk; bizonyára rögtön lecseréljük majd, ha adódik valami alkalmasabb.”
Source: The Sorrow of Angels
“A title doesn’t make a leader—impact does.”
“A title from the1966 movie
"The Russians Are Coming,
The Russians Are Coming,"
gives a new meaning to
a phrase: "wait a minute,
we've seen this movie before”
“A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.”
“a TMNT bond is a bond for life”
Source: Sinner
“A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“A toad grows wings and thinks he's a bloody dragon.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."”
“A toast to his joy, and a moment of silence for the last of his sanity and sleep!”
Source: The Bone Man
“A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.”
“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”
Source: The Citizen Kane book
“A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.”
“A todas esas notas tomadas en reuniones, a todas esas fechas de entrega y plazos. A todos esos proyectos que empezó y terminó para luego tener que empezar y terminar otros, como en el mito de Sísifo. Sus días, en el fondo, tan parecidos a los míos... Su descontento y el mío, tan similares, tan permanentes, tan mortales... Un día que lleva a otro. Un fin de semana. Luego otra semana entera. Seguir y seguir, hasta no reconocerse.”
Source: El descontento
“A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus
“A todo el mundo le mueve algo: un trauma, un empeño, una deuda, una pasión.”
“A todo se acostumbra uno, sí, como se dice vulgarmente, y gran verdad vulgar es esa.”
Source: Berta Isla
“A todos los que se les señaló como #YoTambién (#MeToo), convirtiéndose en las víctimas del Yo#Tampoco (Me#Neither).
"To all those who were pointed out as #MeToo, becoming the victims of the Me#Neither.”
“A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.”
“A toilet paper manufacturer’s worst fear is that the masses will learn how to abstain from toilet paper use during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.”
“A tolerant person should not be harrased. The subject or the ruled ones generally is loyal to the ruler. The people tak to revolt when they are helpless. The duty of the ruler is that his humble people mey not tak to revolt being suppressed by his bad polity. Considering the forbearance of the subject, do not ill behave with them so that they may feel oppressed.”
“A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.”
“A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.”
Source: A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery
“A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.”
“A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.”