A Quotes
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“Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.”
“Achilles shook him. "Just come back.”
Source: The Silence of the Girls
“Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles.”
Source: The Women of Troy
“Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.”
“Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.”
“Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name. I see his face as if through water, as a fish sees the sun.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.”
“Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.”
“Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone's world that she couldn't even love her own children, for fear they wouldn't love her back enough.”
Source: The Final Gambit
“aching to touch stars…
i hope you keep it close…
no matter what.
if it's imprinted on you,
like soul memory,
then i hope you keep it so. close.
and that you hold on tight
no matter what.
there will be little traces of someday
in the not-quite-yet, and i hope you feel them.
and that you can find a way to trust them.
even if weary sets in and uncertain gets loud,
i hope you can be gentle with that doubt.
and that something in you knows that it will pass.
and that it doesn't mean give up.
i hope you never truly feel give-up.
but if you do, then i hope that some. how.
that the fight in you finds its teeth
and that heart of yours finds its fire
and that you can reach deep down into that
part of you that is aching to touch stars and just
find a way to stay dreaming no. matter. what.
i hope you can hold on and hold on
and hold on… until you can feel
every last bit of your hope
holding you right back.”
“Achmed 'Two Jews walk into a bar'
No no no no no' Jeff
You don't let Jews in your bar? You racist bastard' Achmed"
-Achmed the dead terrorist and Jeff”
“Acho curioso como as pessoas procuram humanizar máquinas e valorizar objetos e ao mesmo tempo desvalorizar o ser humano e objetifica-lo.”
“Acho eu que a tal coisa que chamamos 'aprender' de fato não existe. Existe, sim, meu amigo, uma única sabedoria, que se acha em toda parte. É o Átman, que está em mim e em ti e em qualquer criatura. E por isso começo a crer que o pior inimigo dessa sabedoria é a sede de saber, é a aprendizagem.”
“Acho gravíssimo as escolas continuarem ensinando a reproduzir esse sistema desigual e injusto. O que chamam de educação é, na verdade, uma ofensa à liberdade de pensamento, é tomar um ser humano que acabou de chegar aqui, chapá-lo de ideias e soltá-lo para destruir o mundo.”
Source: A Vida Não É Útil
“Acho que as lembranças são cócegas invisíveis que ficam dentro das pessoas.”
Source: AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético
“Acho que as pessoas querem ler sobre as coisas que mais desejam e que experimentam menos.”
Source: Westworld
“Acho que deve haver um equilíbrio entre a generosidade e o ceticismo. Nenhum deles deve levar a melhor de nós. Devemos sempre estar dispostos a ajudar, mas com tanto conhecimento sobre o assunto quanto possível. Porque com a cega generosidade podem vir, infelizmente, parasitas que dela se aproveitam. Com o cego ceticismo é quem mais necessita que fica a perder.”
Source: Daqui Ali - De Portugal a Singapura Por Terra
“Acho que o mais inteligente é quem ao menos uma vez por mês chama a si mesmo de imbecil — capacidade de que hoje não se ouve falar!”
Source: Bobok
“Acho que o seu bisavô, branco e muito, muito pobre nunca foi torturado, Betinho. Amarrado a um tronco. Surrado. Marcado com ferro quente. Nunca teve um dente arrancado à força nem recebeu sal e vinagre nas feridas abertas pelo chicote. O seu bisavô branco e pobre não foi separado da família. E, pelo que me consta, nunca trabalhou sem receber pagamento nem dormiu numa senzala. Um homem branco podia sim ser mal remunerado. Mas nunca escravizado. Podia ficar desempregado, sem ter uma colherada de farinha ou um gole d'água pra oferecer aos seus. Mas era livre. A seca e a miséria podiam alcançar um homem branco e pobre como o seu avô, que lamentaria a sua falta de sorte. Sem algemas nos pulsos ou grilhões no pescoço. Se a doença corroesse a carne de um homem branco, ele seria consumido livremente. A loucura podia tomar conta de um homem branco. Ele seria um homem louco. Mas livre. Ele sempre seria livre. Uma mulher branca podia ser muito, muito pobre. Nem por isso teria os filhos arrancados dos seus braços diretamente para as mãos dos compradores. Por miserável que fosse uma mulher branca, não seria obrigada a oferecer o leite do seu peito ao filho de outra, enquanto o seu próprio filho era privado de ser alimentado. E mesmo se fosse tão pobre a ponto de ter os seios secos, não seria impedida de segurar a sua cria junto ao corpo, procurando dar consolo pra ela. Uma pessoa branca e muito pobre podia trabalhar sem descanso, economizando moedas até se tornar próspera. E, se construísse um império, deixaria de ser pobre, tornando-se somente rica. Já um homem negro, mesmo que enriquecesse, continuaria sendo um homem negro. Ainda hoje, Betinho, se um negro, no auge do desespero, furta um pão, a notícia se espalha: “Aquele negro é um ladrão!”. No entanto, se é um branco que rouba, o comentário se modifica: “Aquele homem cometeu um delito”. Então, sua mãe branca, neta do seu bisavô branco, não sabe do que está falando. É o que eu acho.”
Source: O céu para os bastardos
“Acho que quando alguém é capaz de magoar outra pessoa sem remorsos, não há nada no seu interior que lhe vá dizer para parar.”
Source: O Regresso de Larry Miller
“Acho que vocês deveriam sonhar a terra, pois ela tem coração e respira.”
Source: The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
“Acho que vocês me desprezam. A meu ver, vocês são uma família que construiu uma casa. E das salas aconchegantes da casa estão admirando uma chuva torrencial. Sãos e salvos ali dentro, a chuva não afeta seu conforto. Vocês estão secos e aquecidos. Desfrutando o que a vida tem de melhor. Chova o quanto chover, seu bem-estar não será afetado. Já eu estou debaixo dessa tempestade que vocês acham que nunca os atingirá. Me transformei nela, eu sou essa tormenta da qual vocês procuram abrigo. Vocês construíram essa casa justamente para me evitar. Não venham aqui me dizer que não tenho um papel a desempenhar na vida dos humanos.”
Source: The Employees
“Achoo!" sneeze Robin, Frankie, and Penny.
"Oink-choo!" sneezes the pig-baby.
"Achoo!" sneezes the Duchess. "That's enough pepper.”
“Achte auf deine Gedanken, denn sie werden deine Worte. Achte auf deine Worte, denn sie werden deine Taten." Achte auf deine Taten, denn sie werden deine Gewohnheiten. Achte auf deine Gewohnheiten, denn sie werden dein Charakter. Achte auf deinen Charakter, denn er wird dein Schicksal. Aus einem alten Weisheitsbuch”
Source: Zwischen Licht und Schatten: Die Messner-Tragödie am Nanga Parbat
“Achte nicht nur darauf, was am Boden passiert, sondern auch in der Luft! Deine Feinde können überall sein. Du musst lernen, deine Umgebung in alle Richtungen zu beobachten und die besten Positionen für dich zu nutzen!”
Source: Emanio - Der Schöne und das Biest
“Achter een masker kan een mensch zijn gewone masker, dat hem al een leven lang verveelt, tezamen met een dikke laag conventie afleggen en eens òngemaskerd zijn. Bij de démasque begint dan weer de levensmaskerade. En na de kater ’s morgens opnieuw de verveling.”
Source: Tropische zoutwaterliefde: humoristische roman
“Achteraf werd de vraag gesteld of het deontologisch wel kan dat politici die beslissen over miljoenenprojecten ingaan op een uitnodiging van diegene die bijhorende winsten opstrijkt.
Dat is niet de juiste vraag.
Vanzelfsprekend zou het antwoord negatief moeten zijn, maar 't Fornuis toonde vooral dát het gebeurt, dat het om een uitgelezen kransje 'vrienden van het vastgoed' gaat en dat die relaties zeer nauw zijn.”
Source: De vrienden van het vastgoed
“Acid filled Sara’s mouth.
It wasn’t fair.
That’s what Sara wanted to say. To scream at the top of her lungs.
It just wasn’t fair.
Lena wasn’t strong. She would bend, not break. She would recover from this tragedy the same easy way she recovered from every other tragedy before.
Even if she lost Jared, Lena would always know what it felt like to have his child growing inside of her. She could always hold her baby’s hand and think of holding Jared’s. She could see her child laugh and learn and grow and play sports and do school projects and graduate from college and Lena would always, always remember her husband. She would see Jared in her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. On her deathbed, she would find peace in the knowledge that they had made something beautiful together. That even in death, they would both go on living.
“Sara,” Faith said. “What’s happening here?”
Sara wiped her eyes, angry that she was back in the same dark place she’d started at this morning. “Why does everything come so damn easy to her?” She struggled to speak. Her throat clenched around every word that wanted to come out of her mouth. “Everything just opens up, and she always walks through unscathed and—” Sara had to stop for breath. “It’s just so easy for her. She always has it so goddamn easy.”
Source: Unseen
“Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.”
“Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.”
“ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments.”
“Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.”
“Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.”
“Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.”
“Ack! Parables. I hate parables.”
“Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.”
Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Ackerfurchen. Zäune. Das Kreuz in der Schnapsflasche. Polenta für die Schwiegereltern. Vijarac. Gavrilo und Großmutter - jetzt auch Sretoje - erzählten von all dem, auch um zu gedenken. Sie legten für ihre Toten eine gute Geschichte ein. Der Geschmack des Brunnenwassers ist aus Sprache gemacht. Die Sprache wird weiterfließen. Einer überleben, um zu erzählen. Um zu sagen: Mein Leben ist unbegreiflich.”
Source: Herkunft
“Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.”
Source: Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015
“Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.”
“Acknowledge and accept that there will be chaotic times while being on your raft from being lost in true freedom. Engulfed by darkness at sea, we are consumed by a great loneliness that has consistently existed even when people surrounded us, and that is when we must throw all that is heavy into the water, and float independently through to the present.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“Acknowledge others,
and you will be acknowledged.
Welcome others,
and you will be welcomed.
Cherish others,
and you will be cherished.
Esteem others,
and you will be esteemed.
Despise others,
and you will be despised.
Reject others,
and you will be rejected.
Ignore others,
and you will be ignored.
Disregard others,
and you will be disregarded.
Hear others,
and you will be heard.
Understand others,
and you will be understood.
Help others,
and you be will be helped.
Love others,
and you will be loved.”
“Acknowledge people, not their jobs.”
Source: Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas that Revitalize Your Business, Career & Life
“Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.”
“Acknowledge that it will require blood, sweat, and tears. Many people will tell you to only work smart. But the reality is that you have to work hard, smart, and long.”
“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile. Don't try to find a sunbeam where a shroud of darkness encloses me. Let me mourn. Then, after the storm, when the tears have run dry and my eyes choose to open, I will look for your rainbow of hope.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man’s rebellion against God.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.”
“Acknowledge the dangers and leave or rebuild. The choice is yours.”
“Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.”