A Quotes
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“A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.”
“A very successful method of dragon-fly-catching..is to use a captured female dragon-fly as a decoy. One end of a long thread is fastened to the insect's tail, and the other end of the thread to a flexible rod. By moving the rod in a particular way the female can be kept circling on her wings at the full length of the thread; and a male is soon attracted. As soon as he clings to the female, a slight jerk of the rod will bring both insects into the angler's hand. With a single female for lure, it is easy to capture eight or ten males in succession”
Source: A Japanese Miscellany: Strange Stories, Folklore Gleanings, Studies Here & There
“A very sweet light is spreading over the Earth like a perfume. The moon is slowly dissolving and a boy-sun languidly stretches his translucent arms ... Cool murmurings of pure waters that surrender themselves to the hillsides. A pair of wings dances in the rosy atmosphere. Silence, my friends. The day is about to begin.”
Source: Come sono nate le stelle: Storie e leggende brasiliane
“A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!”
“A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was standing up is not to be intimidating but rather to make eye contact. His question was essentially "are we really interested in moral motives? Isn't it all about action?". I pointed out to him that it was not enough for him to do the right thing - stand up - but he also wanted me to know that he is doing it from the right motive or for the right reason - to make eye contact, rather than to be intimidating. Voila, moral psychology.”
“A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.”
“A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.”
“A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader”
“A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”
Source: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness
“A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?”
“A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
Source: Salem Falls
“A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.”
Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!”
“A very young girl, myself, and my 70-year-old mother all look quite different wearing some of the same clothes from my shop. The whole secret is to know how to do it and some people never will, just like some can't make light pastry: they are lacking in some sort of grace.”
“A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.”
“A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.”
“A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.”
“A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.”
“A vessel swift of flight," though say'st? Hast thou
Not heard of the Millenn'um Falcon, Sir?
'Tis but the ship that hath the Kessel run
Accomplish'd in twelve parsecs,”
“A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.”
Source: Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1
“A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with the subtly modulated British intonation which his public demands of him, speaks his opening line, 'Good morning!'
And the three secretaries - each of them a charming and accomplished actress in her own chosen style - recognise him instantly, without even a flicker of doubt, and reply 'Good morning' to him. (There is something religious here, like responses in church; a reaffirmation of faith in the basic American dogma, that it is, always, a Good Morning. Good, despite the Russians and their rockets, and all the ills and worries of the flesh. For of course we know, don't we, that the Russians and the worries are not real? They can be unsought and made to vanish. And therefore the morning can ve made to be good. Very well then, it is good.”
Source: A single man
“A Veteran is the one who takes up arms to save you before the ones who take up arms to kill you can succeed.”
“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”
“A veteran of failure is harder, robust, and more durable than a billion-pound diamond rock.”
Source: Businessman With An Affliction
“A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that they were 'healthy' and 'adoptable.'”
“A vi ste se kao zaustavili na pragu besmisla, i nakon dvije godine, rekli bi da opravdanja zapravo nema. Ovaj, oprostite, ja vas upravo propitujem... Ne želim predmnijevati ono što ne smatrate. Ali... jesam li makar na nekakvom ovdje tragu?”
Na to izgovoreno, odgovor se tek začuo: “Slušam vas.” poslije čega i starac načas bude kao ostavljen, stojeći oprezan posred prostorije, naizgled uza osjet nekog stida ukoliko nastavi ovako suviše možda intimno. Međutim i sam osmatrajući zamišljeno pod, najposlije se kao trgne te se tiho i smiono usudi protisnuti:
“Samospoznaja.”
“Samospoznaja je suma života.”
“Premda je sve besmisleno...?”
“"Sve je besmisleno" kaže "Sve je kaotično", a kaos je izvor inspiracije, dakle kreacije, dakle je potencijalno dobro. Moj neprijatelj nije besmisao. Što je dalje?”
Source: Veliki pad
“A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.”
“A via da sabedoria é fácil de indicar: - errar, errar, errar! Fazer erros grandes e pequenos, mas sempre menos, sempre menos.”
“A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.”
Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
“A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.”
“A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.”
“A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.”
“A vibrator can last all night, too, vampire! - Denise”
“A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.”
“A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.”
“A vice is a failure of desire”
“A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.”
“A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.”
“A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.”
Source: A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy: chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
“A vicious circle, this thing with Zane. It was like she was living in two worlds' simultaneously; that of a teenage girl and that of a woman.”
Source: Saved by a SEAL
“A vicious monster came from nowhere and kicked the car sideways”
Source: Blazing Night
“A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.”
“A victim evokes sympathy, right? Victims are not responsible, right? Victims have the moral high ground… someone else is causing the misery, right? Victims can easily justify why they are right. Victims allow themselves to be stuck in the status quo and they excel at seeing the faults in others, ignoring their own re-sponsibility. They love to take others’ inventory of faults and are excellent at blaming. Victims become hypersensitive to real and perceived injustice, where any slight becomes a reason to reject. Victimization is the toxic wind blowing through families, fanning the fires of dysfunction.”
Source: Love is Not Enough: Changing Dysfunctional Family Habits
“A victim has the potential to transform into a survivor, but if that is forgotten, a true victim is what they become. A survivor must endure strife and persevere against those thoughts that would convince them otherwise. Holding fast to ones will will allow them to know their strength has not evaporated; They will never be without hope.”
Source: Caged in Spirit
“A ‘Victim’ is highly unlikely to embrace gratitude and the idea that everything is a gift or blessing because they haven’t learned the necessary lessons from their ‘negative’ experiences and so their ego rests on the idea that life is the opposite of a blessing – a curse – in many ways. This isn’t because life actually is a ‘curse’ but because the Victim needs this to be the case so they can keep being what they think they need to be (not who they really are).”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“A “victim” is narrow minded”
“A victim mentality can drag you to a place of utter defeat. Choose victory on a daily basis.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“A victim mentality means you keep paying the price of being stuck, instead of finding healing and victory by moving forward.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.”
Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series
“A victim of the use of water as a beverage.”