#sen

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#am #be the first #british #commissioner #first

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#any #decision #into #longer #made

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #business #come #company #confined

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#grew #island #sense #special #together

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #different #different roles #essentially #form

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#feeling #good #opera #people #plot

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#carpet #corner #down #each #hanging

Confine yourself to the present. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#present #yourself

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#arm #disturb #future #meet #never

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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