Quotes 721 till 740 of 6002.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
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As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
Nobel acceptance speech (1986) -
As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
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As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
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As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
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As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations (2012) -
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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