A Quotes
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“After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.”
“After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.”
“After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.”
Source: The Interestings
“After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.”
“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.”
“after a certain number of years the loneliness becomes so dense and rancid it's almost a companion in itself, which creeps and oozes at you heels”
Source: Starling House
“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”
“After a certain period of time, when I had acquired more insight into the Fuehrer's personality, I gave him my hand and said: "I unite my fate with yours for better or for worse: I dedicate myself to you in good times and in bad, even unto death." I really meant it-and still do.”
“After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.”
“After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“After a certain point, more money is needed. Not to fill the pocket, but for the betterment of society.”
“After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”
“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”
“After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.”
“After a certain time, you stop counting how many hours of sleep you get every day.”
“After a certain time, your scars are no different than memories. Sometimes, they hurt. Sometimes, they soothe. Most importantly, they stay.”
“After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.”
Source: Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).
“After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.”
Source: A Gate at the Stairs
“After a Christmas comes a Lent.”
Source: A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages
“After a conversation with someone that went on all night, but I didn't take much persuading, and the next day I was a vegetarian. It came down to one question, can you be healthy without killing animals? If the answer is 'yes' then the only reason you're killing is because you like the taste. But you can't take a life just because you like its taste.”
“After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.”
“After a couple of rehearsals and a couple of takes, Sydney Pollack says, "Come here. Why are you not nervous?" And I [say], "Do you think it would be better if I was nervous?" And he says, "No, it's just I can't understand it - how you would be first time on a set, you're acting, when he flubs his line you make up a new line. It's very interesting." It's not that I think I'm great; that's what I knew I wanted to do.”
“After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.”
“After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.”
“After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.”
Source: Blue Pastures
“After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.”
“After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour”
Source: Life and Gabriella (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
“After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.”
“After a day spent sitting at her desk, she took pleasure in an unhurried walk home through the streets. This was the only time of day when she chose not to shut out the inchoate thoughts that surfaced, unbidden, as she threaded her way through the streets.”
Source: Human Acts
“After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.”
Source: CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS
“After a dazed moment, Specialist Kit Murphy put his arms loosely around her, and Josie Schaeffer clung to him, knowing this man was not her husband, that her husband was never coming back, but for now she was as close to him as she could get and she would not let him go.”
Source: You Know When the Men Are Gone
“After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”
Source: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers
“After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.”
“After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.”
“After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I concluded that astronomical observatories atop remote mountains are biologically harmful to sea level adapted humans.”
“After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I discovered my body produces little vitamin D.”
“After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I had come to the conclusion that the primary purpose of the human resources department was to facilitate the company objectives at the expense of the employees.”
“After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I was really messed up.”
“After a decade in high altitude professional astronomy and daily mal-acclimatization, professional astronomy worker Steven Magee cannot acclimatize to any altitude.”
“After a decade in high altitude professional astronomy, I looked really old and obese in my forties!”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“After a decade of largely useless doctors visits, I had come to the conclusion that there was a complete absence of specialists in High Altitude Disease (HAD).”
“After a decade of mal-acclimatization, Steven Magee’s body will no longer acclimatize to any altitude.”
“After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.”
“After a decade of using the medical profession, I had concluded that it was much better to research your own sickness using the internet and books, and to self treat with over the counter drugs, supplements and commercially available biomedical devices.”
“After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.”
“After a decade of working at high altitudes, I discovered through experimentation with blood thinners that my body was filled with blood clots.”
“After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy, I was surprised at how many biological systems were damaged in my mind and body.”
“After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy the medical profession discovered that I had a hole in my heart, erratic low blood oxygen levels and brain issues. Heart, lung and brain problems appear to be long term known adverse health aspects of high altitude work and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures.”
Source: Health Forensics