A Quotes
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“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“A Tough life with God is better than a good life without Him”
“A tough loser sleeps best.”
Source: Plotless
“A tough man, usually ends up in prison, but a strong-minded man, will own the prison.”
“A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.”
Source: The People, Yes
“A tough woman. That lady has touched more people than I've ever known.”
“A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.”
“A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.”
Source: Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”
“A tourist is an ugly human being.”
“A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.”
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.”
“A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.”
“A town always looked different once you'd returned, like a house where all the furniture had been shifted three inches. You wouldn't mistake it for a stranger's house but you'd keep banging your shins on the table corners.”
Source: The Vanishing Half
“A town in Upstate New York is being accused of being biased 'cause they sent out absentee ballots that say 'Barack Osama.' Today they apologized and printed new ballots that say 'Barack Hussein Osama.'”
“A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.”
Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.”
Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places
“A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems”
“A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.”
“A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“A toxic leader may achieve short-term success through fear and manipulation, but they will ultimately leave behind broken spirits and damaged organizations.”
“A toxic person kills, and by kills I mean totally destroys teamwork.”
“A toxic police officer stood so close to me that I had to do a COVID-19 test afterward because he breathed on me and I became sickly with COVID-19 symptoms.”
“A toy cannot save a life, but it can save a soul.”
Source: The Toymakers
“A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.”
“A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.”
Source: Growing up free: raising your child in the 80s
“A trace of love's purification is evident the moment instinct wears a human face, even the most anonymous, the most despicable.”
Source: Doctor Faustus
“A track I’ve always liked by Mogwai goes on a loop while I pour a second glass of Reyka. This time it tastes of lava fields and thermal springs, aromatic alcohol evaporating stale thoughts, familiar and foreign. Something unnamed is melting, germinating, potentiating the currents of tomorrow across frozen, unpopulated dreamscapes.”
Source: The Look of Amie Martine
“A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they were being hauled in. The tractor was inescapable, and they knew it. The shuttle’s small yet potent engines struggled vainly against the irresistible pull. Inside, the Hammer and his men prepared to meet their fate.”
Source: Dead Beckoning
“A trade is better then service.”
“A Trade Mark is a company’s persona and identity in the marketplace”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?”
“A Trademark is a type of Intellectual Property that protects names and other marks associated with a particular product or company. A trademark can be a wordmark, logo, combination of letters and numerals, shape of goods, packaging, or combination of colors or any combination thereof which identifies products or services of a particular source from others.
A trademark owner can be an individual, firm, company, society, or any legal entity. A trademark may be located on a package, a label, on an Invoice, or on the product itself.
An applicant can write TM on the logo/wordmark after filing the trademark application. The symbol ® which indicates that the trademark is registered can be used after successful registration of the trademark.
It is common for a business owner to use multiple trademarks for their goods, alongside a shared mark that represents their enterprise, known as a house mark. This helps indicate that the goods originate from the same business, ensuring consistency and reinforcing the brand’s identity. A trademark is valid for 10 years, after that registration has to be renewed for another 10 years.”
“A trademark of something that works well, the cat body has hardly changed since its inception. Like with today's cats, their digestive systems could handle only flesh. The lesson of the cat is that if you are to become a full-fledged carnivore, you have to commit everything to it. A house cat fed vegetarian food will shrivel and die.”
Source: The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
“A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.”
“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.”
“A trader needs to be highly skilled and extremely lucky to beat the market consistently. If a trader is highly skilled but not lucky enough or extremely lucky but modestly skilled, he will beat the market occasionally but not consistently. Traders that are modestly skilled and modestly lucky will briefly beat the market but will be behind the market most of the time. Everybody else will lose money on a long-term basis, that is, 90% of the traders.”
“A tradition (hadith of Prophet Muhammad [May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him]) says:
“[O Human Being!] Spend your life the way you like but [keep in mind that one day] you will die, and love whoever you like but [keep in mind that one day you] will get separated from him/her, and perform deeds the way you like but [keep in mind that one day] you will surely get their just compensation [good or bad depending on your deeds].”
Source: O Son! A Translation of Ayyuhal Walad
“A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.”
“A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.”
“A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of life itself.”
Source: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
“A traditional New Mexico Christmas differs from the rest of the world with four amazing traditions: tamales, bisochitos, empanadas, and luminarias. The first three Mexican specialties add delicious flavor to any meal, and the last one lights up our towns!”
Source: Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
“A traditional tarot deck is composed of seventy-eight cards. You might encounter modern sets with extra cards. Frankly, I'm not a fan of those because I'm old skool.”
Source: Tarot: No Questions Asked—Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading
“A traditionalist can sometimes be looked at as someone who is a fundamentalist, or they can be looked at as someone with a very strict set of understandings of human nature. But a traditionalist in the Vedic tradition, is one who is open-hearted, who does not judge, there's nothing to judge whatsoever, who understands the basic understanding and karma of all of it, and who basically helps when help is called for.”
“A traditionalist’s values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.”
Source: Traditional Angling: Fennel's Journal No. 6
“A tradução literária não é meramente o ato de escolher palavras de uma língua e mergulhá-las no vaso de outra. Essas palavras precisam ser enxaguadas, lavadas, esculpidas e adornadas ao máximo.”