A Quotes
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“A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.”
Source: LITTLE DORRIT
“A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“A trans-rational definition of spirituality therefore encompasses these two elements. First, uncovering our peaceful internal center, and then, allowing that peace to guide our actions in the world.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“A transactional mind is but an insult of love.
Either love or don't, there is no half-loving.
Measure not the light of love by the laws of red light.
At least the red light doesn't pretend purity,
Unlike the civil society with their half-loving.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“A transcendent being can be any miracle.”
“A transcendentalidade guarda e guardará a sua virgindade. A vossa curiosidade é impotente. Não a forçará; não a seduzirá; não a reduzirá. A transcendentalidade é insusceptível de estupro. Oferece-se, coqueteia connosco; faz-nos negaças. Mas a conquista é impossível.”
Source: A Ideia de Deus
“A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.”
“A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.”
Source: Collected papers ...
“A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.”
Source: It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
“A transformational lifestyle is when a person can change the pain in their life into power, messiness into meaningfulness, complacency into completion, victimization into victory and tragedy into triumph.”
“A transformed attitude towards work, money and possessions will be the foundation for financial freedom.”
Source: 21-Day Journey Toward a Generous Life
“A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is “born again” by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“A transient wish crossed his mind; that he could have stayed around and introduced her to the innocent pleasures of...
But the devil with innocent pleasures. He dropped his head back against the wooden settle, closing his eyes. His feelings about Princess Field Mouse were as guilty as sin. He wasted a few moments in imagining a warm bed and his head pillowed on her delightfully plump breasts.
His lust for her was the most peculiar emotion, unlike anything a female had ever before inspired in him: a sort of passion for peace, a ferocious itch to have her and the bizarre impression that he'd somehow gain serenity from the act, that he could lose himself in her as if she were some primal element: a pathless forest or an endless plain instead of a chubby girl.”
Source: Seize the Fire
“A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.”
Source: The Rambler
“A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.”
Source: The Rambler
“A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age.”
Source: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
“A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.”
“A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.”
“a transição para o capitalismo é uma questão primordial para a teoria feminista, já que a redefinição das tarefas produtivas e reprodutivas e as relações homem-mulher nesse período, ambas realizadas com máxima violência e intervenção estatal, não deixam dúvidas quanto ao caráter construído dos papéis sexuais na sociedade capitalista.”
Source: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
“A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.”
“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.”
“A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.”
“A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.”
“A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print”
Source: If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents
“A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.”
Source: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
“A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.”
“A transparent admissions process fosters trust and confidence among applicants and their families, reflecting the school's commitment to fairness.”
“A transparent mirror, suddenly hit and broken. I glued it together, but the face was not as clear as before in the mirror. That spot is floating up the face. The relationship is a lot like this.”
“A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!”
“A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.”
Source: On Literature
“A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.”
“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
Source: KING RAT
“A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.”
“A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.”
“A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.”
Source: Cryer's Cross
“A trapper but this rappin got me going places you'll never go!”
“A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.”
Source: White Teeth
“A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.”
“A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.”
“A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, even better. You don't want to read a book about someone having a great time in the South of France, eating and drinking and falling in love. What you want to read is a book about a guy going through the jungle, going through the arctic snow, having a terrible time trying to cross the Sahara, and solving problems as they go.”
“A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.”
“A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!”
“A traveler cannot present himself within two streams of consciousness simultaneously in a three-dimensional world. It’s a basic principle of dimension slips, just as identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state at the same time. The human mind requires the faculty to discern multiverses, manifold scales of overlapping particles, in order for synchronic subsistence to be possible . . . In layman’s terms: No ménage-a-trois for journeymen.”
“A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.”
“A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.”
“A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.”
“A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.”
“A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.”
Source: Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition
“A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.”
“A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."”
Source: Plutarch's Morals