A Quotes
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“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“A week after Fred and George's departure, Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves, who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier, and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, "It unscrews the other way.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world.”
“A week after Jacque and Fane's ceremony, Decebel had gotten in his Hummer and, without looking back, driven away from the pack mansion. And 62 days, 4 hours, and 22 minutes later he still hadn't returned. But who's counting?”
Source: Just One Drop
“A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.”
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“A week after the Florida hurricane Ian disaster, I had to take a break from researching it because the gruesome aspects of it were affecting my health.”
“A week ago," I say. ''I liked you so much I would have wanted to try to make this work." I swallow a jagged, fist-sized lump, but still voice has to scrape by to get out. "But now I think I might love you too much for that.”
Source: Book Lovers
“A week ago, it all seemed so secure. So settled.”
Source: Cloud Cuckoo Land
“A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.”
“A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.”
Source: Sacré Noir
“A week goes by and I don't call Lucy or Dylan. I want to drift away from them - more than anything, I want to drift away. I sometimes imagine myself totally alone and I enjoy the feeling. And I mean something by alone, something more than the word holds. I mean something blank and pure and vacant, plus me. And also moral. This blank and pure vacancy that includes me that is also moral is so empty, it is so no one, that my presence in it makes me not exist, although I am still there, and that's what lifts all the weight.”
Source: The Universe in Miniature in Miniature
“A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.”
Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue
“A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.”
“A week later, a mob of assorted right-wing nationalists assaulted an anti-war rally in Haifa, bombarding the gathering of Palestinians and leftists with a hailstorm of stones while police stood by and watched. After burning a Palestinian flag while chanting "Death to Arabs," a group of right-wing activists went looking for Arabs to assault. They found Suhail Assad, the deputy mayor of the city, beating him and his son so severely that they had to be hospitalized. When police passed by, the assailants simply walked away, and the police made no arrests.”
Source: The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
“A week later, I said to a friend: I don't
think I could ever write about it.
Maybe in a year I could write something.
There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“A week later, I walked to Gwyneth’s house. She and Dorothy and I shared tea and we wept for Jacob. We talked. We smiled a little. Then I left and waited for Cullah, and thought what a great emptiness was left by Jacob’s passing. At last, I sat at the front door, on the chair where Patience had died. I held my hands folded at my heart, and ached for all who had passed from my world”
Source: My Name is Resolute
“A week later, Stanton walked into the fire. Sparks cascaded around him and formed a crown in his hair without burning. The cold blaze lashed around him, etching a frosty crystalline pattern of his arms and face.
He stared at the other members of the Inner Circle through the veil of flames as the fire burned his mortality away and he became an Immortal again. Their eyes looked more pleased than angry, more content than covetous. Stanton had destroyed the traitor Lambert, and the Atrox was pleased.
The fire became a maelstrom, shrieking up to the heavens in triumph. The crown of burning embers stayed on his head. Bits of fire showered the night and formed a pathway toward the blaze.
Three of the highest-ranking members stepped slowly forward along the fiery path, carrying a cloak spun of black, silky threads. Together they spread the fabric and set the cloak over Stanton's shoulders.
He stared at the emblem, surprised by what he had been given. He smiled, satisfied, and knew that Jimena's final premonition had come true. Only one was allowed to wear this crest. It was the highest honor given by the Atrox; two hands holding the eternal flame of evil. Stanton understood its significance. He had once been destined to be a prince. Now he was Prince of the Night.”
Source: The Sacrifice
“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.”
“A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.”
Source: The Aran Islands and Connemara
“A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:–"The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my head that his daughter has made a bad marriage."
The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty:
"If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go without. If he has no doctor he will die."
"And if he has one?"
"He will die," said the porter.”
Source: Les Misérables
“A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.”
Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel
“A week was what she wanted: a nice manageable chunk of time with a beginning, a middle, and an end, containing, if desired, a space for each of the wonders of the world, the champions of Christendom, the deadly sins, or the colours of the rainbow. (Monday was definitely yellow, Thursday a dull indigo, Friday violet. About the others she didn't feel so strongly.)”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England”
“A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.”
“A weeping slave pressed against her back, hot flesh against her own, and another warm body crushed against her right side, a great sweep of silky hair brushing her naked shoulder.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.”
Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series
“A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.”
“A weird theory I have is we come from a suppressed culture. Ireland is one of the most invaded countries ever. I think the British started it very early, it could be like 800 that decided to come and show us out; and the Danes in the north. We've had a tough time and pretty much a similar culture would be the Jewish culture; they had a pretty hard time. They were being kicked around for a long, long time.”
“A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.”
“A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.”
“A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.”
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.”
“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
“A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.”
“A well-balanced society must put people before the headlong rush for profit. Much research shows the increased productivity and happiness of people working fewer hours each week.”
“A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.”
“A well begun is half ended.”
“A well-behaved person is not always
well-dressed.”
“A well-being culture is nothing short of an essential element of a successful organization.”
Source: A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Healthier, Happier, and More Resilient Workforce
“A well-built character is heard around the world, even if it comes from the remotest of places, whereas a loudmouth without character isn't even heard two feet across no matter how much they shout.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“A well-built character is the epitome of righteousness, hence, above the petty insecurities and rigidities of society.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“A well-built physique is a status symbol. It reflects you worked hard for it, no money can buy it. You cannot inherit it. You cannot steal it. You cannot borrow it. You cannot hold on to it without constant work. It shows dedication. It shows discipline. It shows self-respect. It shows dignity. It shows patience, work ethic, passion. That is why it's attractive to me.”
“A well-cared for body aids a well-trained mind. A well-trained mind leads to a well-defined spirit.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“A well conditioned (controlled) mind will have us disliking persons, places, and things that have not been a part of our personal five sensory experience.”
“A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
Source: The Complete Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
“A well crafted strategy makes the complex actionable and the abstract measurable.”
“A well-cultivated mind deprived of physical engagement lacks all semblance of mobility, and may be in grave danger of ill health.”