#bj

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. ↗

— Fred Allen

#estimation #hole #life #make #men

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day. ↗

— John R. Allen

#beyond #cells #day #doing #eliminate

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. ↗

— Woody Allen

#death #experience #impossible #objectively #still

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object. ↗

— William Ames

#action #active #agent #always #because

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#crucial role #decisions #educated #gatekeepers #helping

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#adequately #any #by the time #choose #college

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. ↗

— Tori Amos

#dirty #else #find #girl #i

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#obsessed #outsider #subject #who