A Quotes
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“After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."”
“After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there”
“After about five minutes had passed, I went outside and they’d gone. When I checked my hand to see if my knuckles were swelling or any bruising was coming up I got a shock, there was false tan on my knuckles! I still chuckle about that to this day.”
Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
“After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.”
“After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.”
Source: Memoirs
“After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.”
“After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."”
“After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.”
“After acknowledging that, I let other memories come. The way his presence made me feel. Like he was north and my heart was a compass that always found its way home.”
Source: Three Strikes, You're Dead
“After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.”
“After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.”
“After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.”
“After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.”
Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
“After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.”
“After Alabama football integrated in 1969-70, the South made a greater, more profound change for good, in a shorter period of time than any region in all of world history.”
Source: CALIFORNIA LIBERALISM IS EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN SPORT’S POLITICAL EFFECT
“After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!”
“After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.”
“After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there're too many patients and too few doctors.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“After all, a town without a bookshop was a town without a heart.”
Source: How to Find Love in a Bookshop
“After all, alcohol is a potentially addictive poison, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying a glass of it with dinner on a regular basis. Likewise, I want to be able to enjoy a bit of fructose—potentially addictive poison anyone?—in the occasional dessert. For me, that’s part of the joy of life.
So I’ll have my glass of wine and maybe a small dish of the amazing gelato at that Italian restaurant. But I’m walking right by ninety percent of what’s for sale at my local supermarket—row after row of sugar-sweetened beverages, snacks, candy, and convenience entrees. We drink water, snack on whole fruit, rudely ignore candy, and cook from scratch.”
Source: Year of No Sugar
“After all, all authority, even that of the Pope, is not an absolute good. Human authority exists for a purpose, and when any human authority attempts to destroy the very purpose of his office, then the common good of his subjects must take precedence.”
Source: Restoring The Bastions: The Church Militant At War
“After all answering "mmm" or silence in the story "The story in the Jail", it's shown that isn't the best idea.”
“After all, aren’t housekeepers the bearers of all family secrets”
“After all, as Franco would dictate, everyone was going to lose their money at some point. You may as well do so half drunk and at the mercy of a pretty smile.”
Source: Den of Shadows
“After all, as I walked down the aisle, I knew there was a very excellent chance of divorce. You did, too. We wear our seat belts and buy life insurance for far less risky propositions, and don bike helmets and cook meat to 160 degrees to be safe. Similarly, it is reasonable to expect everyone in a marriage to protect themselves financially in the likelihood of divorce.”
Source: The Kickass Single Mom
“After all, as it says on a needlepoint sampler or throw pillow or the occasional bumper sticker: Good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere. In high heels. Or mules by Manolo Blahnik, the strappy, tangly kind that give you blisters. And when their feet start to hurt, they bitch about it a lot, until someone agrees to carry them home. Bad girls understand that there is no point in being good and suffering in silence. What good has good ever done? We women still only make seventy-one cents, on average, for every man's dollar. We still have to listen to studies telling us that a single woman over the age of 35 had best avoid airplanes because she is more likely to die in a terrorist attack than get married.”
Source: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
“After all, as omnivores, we were not born knowing what to eat. We all had to learn it, every one of us, as children sitting expectantly, waiting to be fed.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“After all, as Prokhorov said, "Money nowadays comes in two stories." What Westerners could comprehend "two-story money"? A lathe operator during the war received, after deductions, eight hundred rubles a month, and bread cost 140 rubles on the open market. And that meant that in the course of one month he did not earn enough for even six kilos of bread, over and above his ration. In other words, he could not bring home even seven ounces a day for his whole family! But at the same time he did… live. With frank and open impudence they paid the workers an unreal wage, and let them go and seek "the second story." And the person who paid our plasterer [at the Kaluga Gates prison camp] insane money [200 rubles] for his evening's work also got to the "second story" on his own in some particular way. Thus it was that the socialist system triumphed, but only on paper. The old ways—tenacious, flexible—never died out, as a result of either curses or persecution by the prosecutors.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
“After all, before you could play a song, you had to learn each note of the scale. A newspaper article was made up of smaller words. Even baking a cake required smaller steps, like cracking eggs in a bowl or measuring out flour. Maybe Claudie had been going about this all wrong. Maybe if she focused on the smaller steps, she could work her way toward being good at something.”
Source: Meet Claudie
“After all, being a part of the Shimmering Generation means that we have to endure the potential and endless shimmering of these flickering screens that follow us on every step and drag us closer and closer to an endless addiction cycle! To fight against the urge of staring at these shimmering screens, to lose oneself in the masses of endless information that just causes paralysis.”
Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“After all, being alive is my top priority...Leslie from Love & Hugs, Leslie”
Source: Love & Hugs, Leslie: THE SPIRITED LIFE OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO BRAVED ADVERSITY WITH LOVE, HUMOR, AND ADVENTURE
“After all, belief was like glass - once broken it could be pieced back together but the fissures would always be there.”
Source: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
“After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.”
Source: Island of the Aunts
“After all, business model innovation is about finding new combinations from existing business model elements, enhanced elements, and completely new elements.”
Source: Business Model Shifts: Six Ways to Create New Value For Customers
“After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely the
hardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.”
“After all, color in itself has no color — it's simply a construction of the mind: a sensation, like the Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly and the smell of honeysuckle.”
Source: Shades of Grey
“After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.”
“After all, deep in every Texan’s heart, there remains the steadfast belief that any problem can be solved with a big enough gun.”
Source: American Elsewhere
“After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.”
“After all, every heart wants an owner who knows how to handle it gently, right?”
“After all, every story have both good and bad in it, and life can be like that too. I guess it's what we take away from it that counts.”
Source: The Charm Bracelet
“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”
“After all, everyone may not start with the same financial opportunities; however everyone does start with the choice to live their life with integrity, trust, love, respect,understanding for each other and oneself.”
Source: What Makes You Great?
“After all, everyone wanted warmth.
Especially a stray dog that had frozen in the bitter cold so many times that the mere sight of salted roads made him tremble in the anticipation of snow, of the coming of winter.
Taxian-jun looked imposing, but only he himself knew the truth.
That he was nothing but a laughable stray. A stray that had always been looking for a place that he could curl up at, a place to call 'home', but he spent fifteen years looking and he still couldn't find it.
And so, his love and hate become laughably simple -
If someone gave him a beating, he would hate that person.
If someone gave him a bowl of soup, he would love that person.
He was only so simple, after all.”
Source: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2
“After all, everything mystical and occult (hidden) is already gestating within our subconscious, just waiting for us to bring it to life, to reawaken it.”
Source: Horse Magick: Spells and Rituals for Self-Empowerment, Protection, and Prosperity
“After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.”
Source: The Whisperers
“After all, family dynamics aren’t independent clusters of choice and consequence, but rather a tapestry of intricately woven threads of action and reaction, passing over and under each other, knotting together time, emotion, and experience as one.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“After all, far better than pleasant dreams is an amazing reality.”
Source: I Am Still Right Here
“After all, Father, to understand their demonstration one doesn't have to be very intelligent: it's enough to have suffered.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven