A Quotes
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“A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so because the job she will get, the man she will marry, the experiences she will have, are very much dictated by her ability to do so.”
“A young girl’s stroke has breathed us life
upon this luscious, grassy meadow.
Unbound we float in the aether,
protecting the sanctuary of life below.
To grow, this world needs nurturing
only Lady Solary’s warmth can provide.
Yet light flickers briefly then fades,
like a struck match failing to ignite.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“A young girl's heart is indestructible.”
Source: The endless steppe: a girl in exile
“A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;
Promiscuities of bed and board and road;
The one assured treasure
A life, in recollection, truly possessed.”
“A young hero is the world's greatest attraction.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of having himself talked about the world over, without having accomplished a single, useful, objective, practical piece of work. In this case, also, it is a tremendous noise that one day quietly fades away into an "all to no avail." The world of work continues on its calm, quiet, vitally necessary course. Of the great tumult, nothing remains but a chapter in falsely oriented history books, which are only a burden to our children.”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.”
“A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face."”
“A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
“A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.”
“A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, "Immoral Wife." The title is "Immortal Wife," the clerk replied. "I'll get it for you." Oh, please don't bother, If that's the correct name of the book, I don't think I'd care for it. I had something else in mind.”
“A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.”
“A young male shingleback (skink), in spring, travels quite widely through the semi-desert, seeking a partner. He identifies a female by her chemical scent, her pheromones. He may then start to follow her, trailing behind her with his head close to her tail. The pair may stay together for six to eight weeks. If she is not physiologically ready to receive him, she will keep her body close to the ground. But eventually her mood may change and she will straighten her hind legs so that the rear of her body is lifted above the ground. He then crawls beneath her and twists his body so that their cloacas meet and he is able to insert his sperm. The two then separate and go their own ways.
Unlike many lizards, the female retains her fertilised eggs within her until the young are so well developed that they are capable of independent life. This takes a long time. They grow so large that there is only room within her body for a very small number of them — usually no more than three. Then at last, after five months, she gives birth.
The young waddle off into the desert and the female resumes her lonely life. But when spring returns, an adult will once again seek out the partner it had during the previous season. Such partnerships may last for as long as two decades. If one individual is killed, perhaps, as happens only too often, crushed beneath the wheels of a car, the survivor may stay beside the body gently licking it. A coldly dispassionate explanation of this is, of course, that the bereaved has formed a liking for its partner’s pheromone and is reluctant to leave its source. Other interpretations, more sentmental and anthropomorphic, might suggest that the survivor is disconsolate — if not grieving.”
Source: Life in Cold Blood
“A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days”
“A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.”
Source: Locke, Berkely and Hume
“A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"”
“A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.”
“A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.”
“A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.”
“A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.”
“A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.”
Source: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
“A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.”
Source: Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes
“A young man married is a man that's marred.”
“A young man melancholy because the universe wouldn’t fit, because life was a tangle or a wind, or a Yes, or something!”
Source: A Room with a View
“A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.”
“A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.”
“A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway.
* The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously.”
Source: Thud!
“A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
“A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.”
Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage
“A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.”
“A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.”
“A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.””
Source: Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings
“A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to his door offering a ride to higher ground. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours later, as the waters engulfed the first floor of the man’s home, a boat passed by, and the captain offered to take the man to safety. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours after that, as the man waited on his roof—his entire home flooded—a helicopter flew by, and the pilot offered transportation to dry land. Again the man declined, telling the pilot that God would care for him. Soon thereafter, the waters overcame the man, and as he stood before God in heaven, he protested his fate: 'You promised that you’d help me so long as I was faithful.' God replied, 'I sent you a car, a boat, and a helicopter. Your death is your own fault.' God helps those who help themselves.”
Source: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“A young man who came from Columbus, Ohio and made it, and who wants every other young man and young woman, black or white, to know that if I could do it, they could do it. Me and my fans grew up together, and I believe they know I'm a walking billboard and proof of that. That's what I see when I look in the mirror.”
“A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.”
“A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.”
Source: The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government
“A young man who had watched her eating with her fingers offered a set of chopsticks- those sticks for eating that had become so popular. He looked at her suggestively. Instead of blushing, she accepted the chopsticks boldly and continued to walk on, using them to eat noodle and vegetable dishes.”
“A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.”
“A young man who plays his part in society by looking on in green spectacles, and listening with a sickly smile, may be a prodigy of intellect and a mine of virtue, but he is hardly, perhaps, the right sort of man to have at a picnic.”
Source: Armadale
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“A young man will sometimes have all the conviction in the world, only for it all to witness his love interest sway him.”
“A young man with a very good past.
[Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]”
“A young man with goat feet and horns, wearing a shirt of golden scale mail and holding a thing-bladed rapier, steps in the pool of light near a building. His face is expressionless, like someone in a dream.
I note the curls of his tawny blond hair tucked behind his pointed ears, the garnet-coloured cloak tossed over wide shoulders, the scar along one side of his throat, a circlet at his brow. He moves as though he expects the world to bend to his will.
...
His amber eyes are bright, like those of a fox, but there is nothing warm in them.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.”