A Quotes
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“Accurst be he that first invented war.”
“Accusation reveals the character of the accuser more than the accused”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Accusations against gay schoolteachers figure really prominently in liberal news headlines, because they're attention-grabbing and ratings-getting. They last a news cycle and go away and then you never hear about them again.”
“Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.”
“Accusations are useless.”
“Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.”
“Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are responsible in the sense that they have utterly neglected to take part in the work and the organization which precede the choosing of candidates for political office. Local political organizations all over the land are conducted and controlled, as a rule, by politicians.... Businessmen have shirked such responsibilities, leaving an untrammeled field to others less capable of carrying on the administration of government.”
“Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.”
Source: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...
“ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.”
“Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.”
“Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.”
Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
Source: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices
“Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.”
“Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.”
“Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans
“Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.”
Source: A Practical View
“Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.”
“Accustom yourself to Master tilings of the greatest difficulty, and which you seem to despair of. For if you observe, the Left-hand, tho' for want of Practice, 'tis insignificant to other Business, yet it holds the Bridle better than the Right, because it has been used to it.”
“Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.”
Source: The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.
“Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.”
“Accustom yourself to tireless activity.”
“Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.”
Source: Nods and Becks
“Accustomed as we are to being constantly "occupied," if these occupations should happen to be taken from us, we find ourselves empty and abandoned. We then refuse to confront ourself and instead go off in search of friends, to mix in with the crowd, to listen to the radio or to the television, to get rid of this impression of emptiness.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others”
“Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.”
“Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.”
Source: Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater
“Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.”
“Accustomed to women who fussed over him the moment they realized how much wealth he would one day inherit, this woman had the audacity to walk away from him.
—Ezekiel Knight, Sparrow’s Hope”
Source: Sparrow's Hope
“Ace, Chapter 2, Erotomaniac.
That’s lust. She wants me to suckle those perky tits. I just fucking know it.”
Source: Erotomaniac: (Book 1) The Filthy Kings Trilogy
“Ace-king is a fine hand. Ace-queen is a little weaker, but still good. With ace-jack, you're already sliding rapidly down a slippery slope. With ace-ten, you've slid down the slope, fallen off the cliff, and lie in wreckage at the bottom with hands like ace-five and ace-six.”
Source: Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play
“Ace of Spades says that this became clear to him in a revelation one night. He was watching Chris Matthews interview [Barack] Obama, and he didn't get one question! He didn't ask Obama one question about how Obamacare works. Every question was one degree or another: How do you feel about [John] Boehner opposing it? How do you feel about it? What will make you happy? Do you think you can get it? [It] was irrelevant!”
“Ace!" Tate shouted, both Wendy and I jumped and twisted our necks to look his way. "You cashed out or what?" Tate asked still in a shout.
"I'm cashed out," I shouted back.
"You wanna socialize for the next hour or are we gonna go?" He was still shouting and I was acutely aware, due to the fact that the noise level declined significantly, that the entire bar was listening.
"Keep your pants on!" I yelled.
The noise level disappeared.
"Babe, get your ass over here," Tate ordered.
"Patience, Captain, I'm talking to Wendy," I shot back.
"Ass. Over. Here!" Tate commanded.
I looked at Wendy and snapped loudly, "He's so darned bossy!"
Two men and a woman sitting at the bar close to us burst out laughing.
"You better get your ass over there," Wendy advised, I rolled my eyes and stomped across the bar.”
Source: Sweet Dreams
“Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.”
“Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.”
“Aceeași viață aici curgea neauzită, ca și apa printre ierburile mlaștinii. Și pînă seara tîrziu Lavrețki nu se putu smulge din contemplarea acestei vieți trecătoare, ca apa care curge.Durerile trecutului se topeau în sufletu-i ca zăpezile primăvara și - lucru ciudat ! - niciodată nu simți o iubire așa adîncă și de puternică pentru pămîntul patriei sale.”
“Aceitar tudo equivale ao lambebotismo, que é o maior mal que desgraça a nossa sociedade, onde as pessoas tendem a querer agradar ao chefe com todas as artimanhas possíveis.”
“Aceitar uma ordem, defender uma ordem, impor uma ordem, era reconhecer que, nem que fosse provisoriamente, a injustiça era inevitável. Mas a desordem total seria o reino do mais forte, do mais maligno, do mais violento, e não necessariamente a possibilidade de harmonia e de justiça. Disso emergira a humanidade. Emergira? Ou substituíra progressivamente violência por indiferença à violência, injustiça por insensibilidade à injustiça, egoísmo por inconsciência, medo da morte por medo da vida?”
Source: Sinais de Fogo
“Acel gest simbolic de a o întrona pe Déesse Raison la Notre-Dame pare să fi însemnat pentru lumea apuseană ceva asemănător cu tăierea Stejarilor lui Wotan de către misionarii creştini, căci nici atunci, nici acum, fulgerul răzbunător nu i-a lovit pe nelegiuiţi. Este probabil mai mult decât o glumă a istoriei universale faptul că tocmai în acel moment şi tocmai un francez, Anquetil du Perron, se afla în India şi, la începutul secolului al XIX-lea, aducea acasă o traducere a Oupnek’hat, o culegere de cincizeci de Upanişade, care au permis pentru prima oară Occidentului să arunce o privire mai adâncă înăuntrul enigmaticului spirit al Orientului … Masa anonimă de oameni întunecaţi, care s-a adunat cu gânduri distrugătoare în Notre-Dame, s-a năpustit şi asupra individului, nimerindu-l şi pe Anquetil du Perron, în care a provocat un răspuns devenit istoric. De la el se trag Schopenhauer şi Nietzsche, de la el apare acea influenţă spirituală încă incalculabilă a Orientului.”
Source: Civilization in transition
“Acelei clipe nu i-am spus nicicum,
și poate n-o să-i spunem nici de-acum,
deși s-a rotunjit și pare plină
de răsuflarea noastră, de lumină.
Mai trebuie să așteptăm, din vânt,
răsufletul întregului pământ
și-o rază ce s-a preumblat prin lume
din ochi în ochi și s-a oprit pe-o stea.
Atunci vom spune clipei dulci să stea
ca-n mii de limbi să-i dăm același nume.”
Source: Poeme
“Acepatamos el amor que creemos merecer”
“Acepta el momento presente exactamente como es. Esto traerá una enorme cantidad de paz a tu vida. Simplemente debes tener claro que aunque ahora no te guste, eso cambiará. La vida no es estática, se mueve y pronto estarás donde quieres.”
“Acepta las cosas como vienen. No las conviertas en drama ni te las tomes a la tremenda. Ten equilibrio en todo. La vida exige estar sereno.”
“Aceptación es simple amor en practica. Cuando tú amas, tú aceptas, cuando te falta amor, tú juzgas.”
“Aceptar como tema de discusión, una categoría que nos parece falsa nos expone siempre a un riesgo: el de mantener, en virtud de la atención que se le presta, alguna ilusión acerca de su realidad.”
Source: Totemism
“Aceptar nuestra vulnerabilidad en lugar de tratar de ocultarla es la mejor manera de adaptarse a la realidad.”
“Aceptó que, ante este problema, si lo sobrevivía, perdió la confianza de sus superiores y cualquier posibilidad de volver a la Escuela. Fracasó en sus intentos de superación… A pesar de su tristeza, Flor no se arrepintió de nada.”
Source: Las flores de Castilla