A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.”
“Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
“Abuse never portrays you!”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.”
“Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.”
“Abuse of power comes as no surprise”
Source: Jenny Holzer: writing
“Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. I have a reverence for individuality. I've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. I am a libertarian.”
“Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.”
“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to ethical principle, in which it is thought foolish not to subject one's actions to the calculus of self-interest and profitability. War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent--war being defined as as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”
Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826
“Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.”
“Abuse thrives in secrecy, whereas out in the open it wilts and dies. The more we can bring abuse of any kind out into the world, where we can examine it and talk about it, the more likely we are to see the back of it.”
Source: Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
“Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.”
Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”
Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.”
“Abused children often find a way to live through abuse and cope with the aftermath of these experiences. This may result in common trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. In adulthood, these trauma responses may continue to resurface as a way of coping with intrusive memories or feelings of shame, guilt, or anger related to the abuse.”
Source: Hope and Healing for Survivors: A Workbook for Women Who Have Experienced Childhood Sexual Abuse
“Abused patience turns to fury.”
“Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.”
Source: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; of York, Mariner: With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by pirates
“Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.”
“Abusers happily cheat, lie, verbally assault, manipulate, confuse, and ignore others, but survivors often find that when they try to react firmly and stand up to this abuse, they immediately end up feeling bad. Let go of this inner turmoil. Having boundaries is what makes you healthy.”
Source: Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People
“Abusers rely on their victims silence.”
“Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.”
Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?”
“Abusing and misusing law and power is not the appetite of the civilians, but that takes place often by the uniform holders. As a result, corruption floods, and the state goes toward anarchy.”
“Abusing, hatred or perverting of any matters does not fall under the freedom of the speech and press. It is a crime.”
“Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.”
Source: Problems of everyday life, and other writings on culture & science
“ABUSIVE MEN COME in every personality type, arise from good childhoods and bad ones, are macho men or gentle, “liberated” men. No psychological test can distinguish an abusive man from a respectful one. Abusiveness is not a product of a man’s emotional injuries or of deficits in his skills. In reality, abuse springs from a man’s early cultural training, his key male role models, and his peer influences. In other words, abuse is a problem of values, not of psychology. When someone challenges an abuser’s attitudes and beliefs, he tends to reveal the contemptuous and insulting personality that normally stays hidden, reserved for private attacks on his partner. An abuser tries to keep everybody—his partner, his therapist, his friends and relatives—focused on how he feels, so that they won’t focus on how he thinks, perhaps because on some level he is aware that if you grasp the true nature of his problem, you will begin to escape his domination.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“Abusive relationships exist because they provide enough rations of warmth, laughter, and affection to clutch onto like a security blanket in the heap of degradation. The good times are the initial euphoria that keeps addicts draining their wallets for toxic substances to inject into their veins. Scraps of love are food for an abusive relationship.”
“Abusive relationships shouldn’t have a key to your chambers of heart. Hold your key and keep it close.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“Abusive words exists until you review them by mistake”
“Abuzul de putere nu constă mereu în chin şi lovituri. Uneori se foloseşte de iubire şi blândeţe şi te leagă de mâini şi de picioare.”
Source: Cel care mă așteaptă
“Aby podążyć za wytyczonymi przez Poppera ścieżkami naukowej praktyki badawczej, trzeba na samym jej początku dokonać aktu wiary w postaci wyboru paradygmatu. Wiary – ponieważ żadne argumenty empiryczne nie wesprą, ani nie sprzeciwiają się naszej decyzji o przyjęciu bądź odrzuceniu założenia, że rzeczywistość rządzi się zasadami przyczyny i skutku, że jest poznawalna, a nawet że istnieje. Zwolennicy przekonań odmiennych od naszych mają tyle samo dobrych powodów, by przyjmować swoje założenia, a odrzucać te, które przez nas wybraliśmy. Wszystkie te powody trzeba uznać za pozaracjonalne i pozaempiryczne, ponieważ nie potrafimy naukowo badać prawdziwości twierdzeń z tak ogólnego poziomu. Praktyka naukowa zaczyna się o krok później, gdy na fundamentach przyjętych założeń ontologicznych i epistemologicznych budujemy konkretne modele teoretyczne interesujących nas zjawisk, aby następnie poddać je testom empirycznym i w ich wyniku przyjąć, odrzucić lub modyfikować. Mając "ironiczną okoliczność" w pamięci, nie będziemy zapewne skłonni do angażowania się w gorące spory na temat wyższości jakiego konkretnego paradygmatu, np. ilościowego, nad innym, np. jakościowym – lub odwrotnie. Nie ma tak wielkiego znaczenia, który zestaw założeń i kryteriów poprawności metodologicznej przyjmiemy za swój. Tym, co odróżnia praktykę naukową od pozanaukowych form budowania wiedzy, jest bezdyskusyjne trzymanie się przyjętego (w ramach wybranego paradygmatu) rygoru metodologicznego i pokora wobec empirii. Warunki te spełnia zarówno podejście jakościowe, jak i ilościowe, a także kilka innych paradygmatów, w których rozróżnienie to nie jest tak istotne. Możemy wybierać z wielkiej różnorodności metod, systemów teoretycznych i paradygmatów, jakie mamy dziś do dyspozycji.”
“Aby zobaczyć miłość, musimy być miłością.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“abyss, n.
There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.”
“ABам34닷ｃｏｍ 일산마사지 아밤 남포동마사지 ［울산마사지］ ABам34닷ｃｏｍ 일산마사지 아밤 남포동마사지 ［울산마사지］ ABам34닷ｃｏｍ 일산마사지 아밤 남포동마사지 ［울산마사지］ ABам34닷ｃｏｍ 일산마사지 아밤 남포동마사지 ［울산마사지］ ABам34닷ｃｏｍ 일산마사지 아밤 남포동마사지 ［울산마사지］”
“AC/DC is very easy to miao along to!”
“AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.”
“AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.”
“AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.”
“ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.”
“acaba yükseklik korkusuna girer mi bu
ne zaman yükselsem düşecekmişim gibi gelir”
Source: Nafile Dikit
“Acababa de dejar mi huella en el mundo”
Source: Conexiones resilientes
“Acabada la comida, el notario se fue a su estudio a dormitar en un diván, la madre salió a regar las flores. Pilar se puso a leer una revista y Valentina y yo discutimos sobre materias graves. Una de ellas —nada menos— la iglesia donde nos casaríamos un día. Estábamos de acuerdo en que el amor libre no estaba bien y era necesario el matrimonio. Así, pues, nos casaría mosén Joaquín y, puestos a elegir la iglesia, después de nombrar todas las del pueblo, propuse yo la ermita de San Cosme y San Damián, antigua y de bastante fama, que estaba precisamente cerca de la Herradura. Valentina aprobó mi idea con entusiasmo.
—Estando tan lejos la ermita —decía razonable como siempre— sólo se molestarán en venir a la boda los amigos verdaderos.
No gustaba ella de la gente hipócrita, como Pilar, por ejemplo. Yo tampoco. La cocinera, al oír lo de San Cosme y San Damián soltó a reír con un fondo maligno que yo no sabía cómo entender. Se asomaba a la puerta y me miraba con sorna. Yo despreciaba en todo caso el mundo de las cocineras. Pero ella volvía con sus risas. Más tarde supe que aquella ermita era la que preferían para casarse las campesinas que no habían tenido paciencia para esperar o no habían podido resistir la impaciencia del novio. Es decir, que las mujeres que se casaban allí estaban visiblemente encintas. Solía suceder entre campesinos y gente humilde. La cocinera representaba, una vez más, la procaz realidad interfiriendo en nuestro sentido angélico de las cosas.”
Source: Crónica del alba, 2
“Acabei aprendendo que a gente sempre verá alguém reagindo de um jeito diferente, conforme o sentido que uma palavra ganhe na cabeça dessa pessoa. Para você, A pode significar apenas A; já um outro pode entender que A é o que vem antes de B, C e D. Você pode olhar para o copo com água até a metade e achar que está meio cheio, outro pode ver o mesmo copo e pensar que ele está meio vazio. E cada um vai reagir de acordo com o sentido que dá para cada coisa na vida.”
Source: Em memória
“Acabo de entender que el fútbol no es ni más ni menos que eso. Eso que me dio mi viejo, y que yo le paso a mi hijo. Ese amor gratuito, esa esperanza desbocada. Ese dolor, esa rabia, esa fe rotunda en que, alguna vez, habrá revancha”
Source: Las llaves del reino
“Acabou ali. Tudo o que podia ter sido e não foi. Tudo o que era para acontecer e não aconteceu. Se penso em como eu era antes desse dia, me parecem duas vidas distintas. Há uma ruptura, uma descontinuação da história. Como se aquela menina que eu era tivesse outro fim, e a atual fosse resultado de qualquer outra infância.”
Source: A Shila Negra
“Acacia Vitak. Your time has come. It is time to remember who and what you are.”
“Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.”
Source: Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six