A Quotes
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“After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of figured that if we was willing to do that to ourselves, then what the hell would we of done to them?
They taking the wounded out of there, when along come Sergeant Kranz, hair all singed off, clothes burnt up, looking like he just got shot out of a cannon.”
Source: Forrest Gump
“After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.”
Source: Diana Victrix
“After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.”
“After a while, you get tired of pretending that you’re in control of everything that happens to you, and you start being what happens to everyone else.”
Source: Nightfall
“After a while you learn that everything stops.”
Source: Lunar Park
“After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.”
“After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.”
“After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.”
“After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There's so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There's a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don't need to do that.”
“After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
“After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.”
Source: Book of Longing
“After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.”
“After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction”
“After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.”
“After a while, the fear became a habit, too.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You: A Novel
“After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.”
“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”
Source: I Am Legend
“After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.”
“After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.”
“After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.”
“After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.”
“After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.”
“After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are”
Source: Every Day
“After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.”
“After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.”
“After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.”
“After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.”
“After a while, you're growing up so quickly and you begin to not know your parents anymore. You're left with the memories you had as a kid, but you're not a kid anymore and your experiences are separate. We are now much closer and communicate almost every day. It's a lot of work, but what holds us together is the hope that we will one day be together again.”
“After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels”
“After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman.
Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session. I guess it was the castration fantasy that pushed over the edge.”
“After a year, how many days in it will you never think of again?”
Source: Dhalgren
“After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.”
“After a year of faithful and deliberate journaling, the pain has eased, and each day has gotten a little brighter.”
“After a year of listening to their talk, she absorbed some of the same spirit. The belief that anybody could be rich if he wanted to and worked hard enough and figured it out carefully enough. Apparently that's what the Pizzinis had done. She and Jim could do the same thing, and she thought she saw what had been wrong with them before--they hadn't tried hard enough, worked long enough, saved enough. There hadn't been any one thing they wanted above and beyond everything else. These people had wanted only one thing--more and more money--and so they got it.”
Source: The Street
“After a year of self-discovery—and sleeping with a bunch of younger men—I came to realize confidence is the sexiest trait a woman can possess, no matter her size nor shape.”
Source: Lacie's Lessons In Dating : Confidence Is Alluring
“After a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines.”
Source: The Archived
“After a year of transformation Foster's Group sits at the doorstep of a period of sustained strong earnings growth.”
“After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.”
“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and
through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.”
“After a year or two, the long term expats won’t see the beggars the same way. After a year or two, the cheeky young monks won’t make them smile. After a year or two, the newest restaurant opening won’t pull them in. To preserve they will withdraw and settle. They will come to accept the limits of it all. The hype won’t bother them. The promise won’t motivate them. They will have accepted their odd expat life, their awkward place in the chimera that is Myanmar today.”
“After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.”
“After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.”
“After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.”
“After a yearlong investigation, there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server I was using, and there is no evidence that anyone can point to, at all ... that any classified material ended up in the wrong hands.”
“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love-- I have found you. You are my sympathy-- my better self-- my good angel-- I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you-- and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me into one.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.”
“After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.”
“After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.”
“After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.”