A Quotes
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“Above all, I have to maintain my air of confidence. No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.”
“Above all, I wish for a world in which men and women of every nation archive a measure of dignity and opportunity in their individual lives that allows each of them to serve others, and stand up to the forces of injustice and inequality wherever they exist.”
“Above all, I wish to see.”
Source: Circles of Separation
“Above all, it is choice. Pater is at all points an eclectic. Several times he insists upon the necessity of separating what is touched with ' intense and individual power' in a man's work from what has ' almost no character at all.' In art, in life, the best of whatever kind will delight him. He loves the spectacle of 'brilliant sins and exquisite amusements.' The strong, the magnificent, the saintly, the beautiful, the cruel, the versatile, the intense, the gay, the brilliant, the weary, the sad-coloured, everything but the dull, delights him. From religion, philosophy, poetry, art, Nature, human life, he summons what is rich and strange. He delivers it in choicest language because it has to be worthy of his own choicest moments of enjoyment. For here also he is an eclectic, ignoring the ordinary, the dull, the trite.”
Source: Walter Pater
“Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.”
“Above all, [Jock Lewes] sought to instill supreme physical stamina and self-confidence, to make the men so inured to hardship that the reality, when it came, would feel almost easy. “The confident man will win,” Lewes insisted.”
Source: Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
“Above all, let us not ourselves be pinned down by ill-intentioned creatures with incongruent and disputable forethoughts, trying to submit us to devious manipulations and hinder us from breaking free from contrived mental bondage. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness")”
“Above all, let us take the time to learn to listen intently to ourselves if we want to be mindful and aware of others. If we can untie the knotty points in our minds and become conscious of what is essential in our lives, we can reach the core of our inner selves and then sense how cool it is to listen to others and enjoy the wonder of connecting. ("I am on my own side, but I can listen" )”
“Above all, love deeply.”
“Above all, love must be freely given, by mutual consent on both sides, through the exercise of free will. Because it is thus freely chosen, it is an act of humanity and civilisation, neither a daemonic possession such as hurled Dido upon her funeral pyre or Medea upon her children, not the base stirrings of concupiscence.”
Source: Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
“Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.”
“Above all nations is humanity.”
“Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.”
Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
“Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further in your customary state of self-neglect, distrust the philistine in yourself who thinks you are just fine as you are! Hear the voice from the stone, do not resist the call to get in shape! Seize the chance to train with a god!”
Source: Du mußt dein Leben ändern
“Above all other things, GhostWalkers were enhanced to be able to disappear into the night, fade into darkness and remain undetected by an enemy no matter how close they got to him- or her.”
Source: Toxic Game
“Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?”
“Above all, remember every evil idea deserves to be hated. Hating people however, is endless AND dangerous. People, including yourself, can change when you give them reason and space.”
“Above all, remember this: you are not a machine. Even the best-tuned systems can break down under stress, illness, or sudden events. Treat yourself with the same kindness you would offer a close friend. When Drive collapses, it is not a moral failure. It is a system problem, and you now have the tools to tune and repair that system.”
Source: Switch On: A User’s Guide to Your Mind’s Drive Engine
“Above all remember your humanity.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“Above all shadows rides the sun.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enabled her to enter a male-only field and overcome the daunting challenges put in her way.”
Source: Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
“Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley
“Above all sins, guard against bold or arrogant ones. You are not beyond the danger of such. If caught in the web of presumptuous sin, call quickly to God for help. If you hesitate, you only give Satan time to entangle you more tightly. But if you cry out to God in true repentance, He will come at once to rescue you. The sooner you yield to the Spirit, the less damage is done to your soul.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare
“Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
“Above all, surround yourself with friends who make you laugh, especially if you live with them. When they no longer make you laugh, throw them out and recycle them.”
“Above all, the abusive man wants to avoid having you zero in on his abusiveness itself. So he tries to fill your head up with excuses and distortions and keep you weighed down with self-doubt and self-blame. And, unfortunately, much of the society tends to follow unsuspectingly along behind him, helping him to close your eyes, and his, to his problem.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“Above all, the function of art is catharsis, purification: emotions accumulated in us under the pressure of social restraints, and liable to sudden issue in unsocial and destructive action, are touched off and sluiced away in the harmless form of theatrical excitement ; so tragedy, "through pity and fear, effects the proper purgation of these emotions." Aristotle [...] in this theory of catharsis he has made a suggestion endlessly fertile in the understanding of the almost mystic power of art.”
Source: The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy; 39
“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”
“Above all the studies in the world, study your own hearts; waste not a minute more of your precious time about frivolous & unsubstantial controversies. My dear flock, I have, according to the grace given me, labored in the course of my ministry among you, to feed you with the heart strengthening bread of practical doctrine, and I do assure you, it is far better you should have the sweet and saving impressions of gospel truths, feelingly and powerfully conveyed to your hearts, than only to understand them by a bare ratiocination, or a dry syllogistical inference. Leave trifling studies to such as have time lying on their hands and know not how to employ it. Remember you are at the door of eternity, and have other work to do. Those hours you spend upon heart-work in your closets, are the golden spots of all your time and will have the sweetest influence up to your last hour.”
“Above all, there was understanding. She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.”
Source: The Awakening " and Selected Stories: Microsoft Reader Level 5
“Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.”
“Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.”
“Above all things I believe in love.”
“Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.”
“Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.”
Source: Seriously ... I'm Kidding
“Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.”
“Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.”
“Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works
“Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.”
“Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.”
Source: The Thomas Jefferson Papers
“Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.”
“Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Above all things, respect yourself.”
“Above all things, reverence yourself.”
“Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.”