A Quotes
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“A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.”
“A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.”
“A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.”
“A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.”
“A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“A youthful nation like ours must leave an impact in the entire world.”
“A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids.”
Source: The Yummy Mummy Kitchen: 100 Effortless and Irresistible Recipes to Nourish Your Family with Style and Grace
“A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.”
“A zatem, odpowiadając na zadane wcześniej pytanie: nie, nie musisz zawodowo zajmować się pisaniem, aby pisać – i robić to dobrze. Nie musisz też mieć wrodzonego talentu ani setek literackich odznaczeń na koncie. Aby zacząć pisać – wystarczy zacząć pisać. Aby zacząć pisać dobrze – trzeba poznać techniki, które czynią nasze pisanie lepszym. Zbyt proste? A kto powiedział, że wszystko zawsze musi być diabelnie skomplikowane?”
Source: Pisz. Publikuj. Działaj. Jak tworzyć skuteczne treści w internecie
“A zašto? Zašto sve to? Kasnije sam pokušavao da to objasnim potrebom za onom “slobodom” koja se sastoji ni od čega i ničemu ne vodi, ali koja zato nije manje stvarna i imperativna potreba. Čitavog sam se vijeka od nečega “oslobađao”! Život mi nije bio drugo nego niz susljednih “oslobođenja”. Odbacivao sam od sebe sve, svlačio se do gole kože, kao brodolomac pred skok u valove. Vjerovao sam da tako postajem cjelokupniji; više svoj, više ja. Ostavljao sam nasušne oslonce, napuštao dragocjene izvore okrepljenja, a sve zbog one male neslobode kojom su me sputavali. Na epidermi ličnosti osjećao sam kao vežanj čak i tako nježne dodire da ni sâm nisam znao jesu li oni milovanje ili sputavanje. Kad su svi mostovi bili spaljeni, pitao sam se: što si time postigao? Usamio si se, ogolio do kosti, stvorio oko sebe pojas pustoši. Lišio si se svega, pa najzad i sebe sama - osakaćena i nepotpuna bez svega onoga što te integrira i objašnjava. Drugi imaju bar svoje lance. Ti nemaš ni to.
Nisu izostale ni varijacije na temu žrtva.
- Žrtva! Umjetnost i žrtva! Vječiti binom, u njegovim beskonačnim odnosima i omjerima. Žrtva i umjetnost. Žrtva umjetnosti. Umjetnost žrtve. A žrtva za instrument bez sumnje predstavlja najviši stepen žrtve za koji je sposoban ljudski stvor. Ta molim te, zar bi iko od nas bio spreman da za čovjeka prinese onoliku žrtvu koliko prinosi za instrument!”
Source: Proljeća Ivana Galeba
“A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.”
Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
“A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.”
Source: Daniel Boone: His Own Story
“A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.”
“A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.”
“A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“A zebra can not change it's spots.”
“A zebra does not change its spots.”
“A zebra is the piano of the animal kingdom, and now you can learn to play like Mozart on horseback. If I can coach my ducks to become World Dodgeball Champions, I can make your musical equestrian dreams a reality.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.”
“A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.”
“A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.”
“A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.”
“A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'”
Source: Zen: dawn in the West
“A Zen monastery is not a place where just anyone may train, but rather its doors are open to only those who earnestly aspire to study the Way.”
Source: The Zen Life
“A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention."”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.”
“A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook.”
“A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.”
“A zest for living must include a willingness to die.”
“A znaš da sam i ja kršćanin pa da znadem da se muž i žena moraju lijepo slagati i uzajamno potpomagati da dostignu svoju konačnu svrhu za koju su stvoreni - Nebo!”
Source: Mladi Stepinac, Pisma zaručnici
“A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.”
“A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.”
“A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.”
“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”
Source: When You Are Engulfed In Flames
“A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.”
“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).”
Source: The developing human: clinically oriented embryology
“a água do mar está gelada demais e ninguém se arriscou a
entrar. já reparou que as pessoas fogem do que pode tirá-las
da temperatura ambiente? eu não sou desse jeito. gosto da
adrenalina do que tiver que ser será. sempre é, sempre será.
tenho pavor de raso, quando metade do corpo fica dentro da
água e metade não. eu sou dos fundos, entende?”
Source: Tudo nela brilha e queima
“A él le hubiere gustado saber que alguien le quería mantener vivo, que le recordaba. El solía decir que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“A él le parecía que Gertrudis se había convertido con los años en una especie de mueble, que había dejado de ser una persona viviente.”
Source: El héroe discreto
“A ética é a mulher mais bonita do universo.”
“A începe să citești o carte este ca și cum te-ai urca într-un tren care te duce în vacanță.”
Source: La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz
“A última coisa que o chefe quer num cozinheiro de linha é um inovador, alguém com ideias próprias que irá estragar as suas receitas ou as suas apresentações. Os chefes exigem cegueira, lealdade próxima do fanatismo, costas fortes e uma consistência de autómato para executar as tarefas dentro de uma situação de combate.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“A última coisa que um professor precisa é de dar aos seus alunos mais informação. Eles já têm informação a mais. Em vez disso, as pessoas precisam é da capacidade de discernir a informação, de perceber a diferença entre o que é importante e o que é irrelevante, e, acima de tudo, de combinar os vários pedaços de informação para obter um retrato completo do mundo.”
Source: 21 lições para o século 21
“A única certeza que um castelo de cartas tem é de que um sopro pode derrubá-lo”
Source: Posta-Restante
“A única ciência que nos assiste é a de preferirmos amar. Quem prefere o amor vive no milagre, e o milagre é em toda parte.”
Source: Deus na escuridão