A Quotes
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“A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that.”
“A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.”
Source: Why Atheism?
“A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.”
“A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.”
Source: The Crisis of Caring: Recovering the Meaning of True Fellowship
“A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.”
“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror”
“A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.”
“A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.”
“A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.”
“A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.”
“A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve”
“A win-win strategy or situation will ensure that both the citizens and the government are cooperating and collaborating accordingly.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“A win would be better than a draw.”
“A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.”
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.”
Source: On Lynchings
“A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.”
“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”
Source: Selected poems
“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.”
“A wind starts to blow, without feelings,
A song falls in love, without singing,
A life will begin in melodies of the strings,
May you find all pleasure of the light,
God bless, Warrior of Light!”
“A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“A winded, defeated-looking fat woman in filthy coveralls trudged beside us, hearing what Miss Pefko said. She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
Source: Cat’s Cradle
“A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.”
“A window is just a window. Colored glass: mere glass. But in the sun it becomes more. She would show him, and say, love should do this.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.”
“A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.”
“A window of opportunity might present itself in tomorrow's battle. The odds of that happening may be 0.1 percent, or even 0.01 percent, but if I could improve my combat skills even the slightest bit- if that window were to open even a crack- I'd find a way to force it open wide. If I could learn to jump every hurdle this little track meet of death threw at me, maybe someday I'll wake up in a world with a tomorrow.”
Source: All You Need Is Kill 1
“A window of understanding opened in my mind , and the breeze of compassion blew in.”
Source: Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
“A window seat on a long flight can help you to see the broader order of life. People feel like they get a God’s eye view, like they’re very powerful. It offers that kind of perspective and scope. That’s why everyone wants the window seat. They want this view. At least for a little bit, even if they also want to read or watch stuff for the majority of the flight.”
Source: In Limbo
“A window within the soul to see Light and Magick I send with thee Be strong, be brave, make the right choice Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice Know that I am watching from above And that always, always, the answer is love!”
Source: Awakened: A House of Night Novel
“a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.”
Source: Black April: A Novel
“A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.”
“A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.”
“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes.”
“A wing on a Formula One car operates like the wing on an aero-plane except in reverse. So whereas the aircraft wing generates life, the wing on a car does the opposite, pushing the car down to the surface.”
Source: Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
“A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.”
“A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.”
“A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.”
“A winner don't quit”
“A winner forgets he's in a race, he just loves to run.”
“A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.”
Source: What Do You Say After You Say Hello
“A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.”
Source: The Butlerian Jihad
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up”
“A winner is a person, who is programmed for victory in advance”
“A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose.”
“A winner is not someone who conquers the world; a winner is someone who conquers himself." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio”
“A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.”
“A winner is one who lost so many times he learned how to succeed.”