A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.”
“After all the education I have had, I am reduced to the lowliest place in the house of my in-laws?”
Source: Second Chinese Daughter
“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.”
Source: The Spider's House
“After all, the entire process of "getting along" is nothing more than a cycle of deception. You're lying to yourself and others. They acknowledge that they're being deceived, and you acknowledge that they're deceiving you [. . .] In the end, it's nothing more than falsehood, suspicion, and deceit.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。4
“After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.”
“After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.”
Source: White Oleander
“After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.”
Source: Bereft
“After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.”
Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle
“After all, the greatest magic lies in the most unexpected places, like, when the rain is wetting the alleys, the street lamps are on, and a familiar scent floats in the breeze in search of a forgotten story. There, when you least expect it, something ignites deep inside and the magic begins.”
“After all the heartaches inflicted by white people, a 100 generations worth apology won't be sufficient.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”
Source: Death of a Salesman
“After all the imagination is a beautiful thing.”
Source: Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
“After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers, "Mary"
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere, a queen is weeping
Somewhere, a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries, "Mary"
The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead
And the wind screams, "Mary"
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past?
And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers, "No, this will be the last"
And the wind cries, "Mary”
Source: The Wind Cries Mary Sheet Music
“After all the lies and the deception have been successfully challenged in your favour, I hope that you will, at least, find comfort in the truth.”
“After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.”
“After all, the male ego was a horrible thing.”
Source: Martyrs and Monsters
“After all the many changes in my life, Olay Total Effects has helped me fight not just 1 but 7 signs of skin ageing.”
“After all, the media was flooded with stories about people suffering from post-traumatic stress; his behavior had seemed understandable. It wasn't until the Paris riots that she realized how much he'd changed, as though some dark seed buried inside him had found the ideal conditions for growth. And after he left, she was forced to recognize how she'd changed as well, her determined cheerfulness and willful ignorance, her ability to read the newspaper and then push the unpleasantness from her mind (how typical, how bourgeoisie, how very American, she thought now), as though the world wasn't shifting very much at all, as though everything wasn't disintegrating beneath them.”
Source: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
“After all, the only thing harder than allowing yourself to care is pretending that you don't.”
Source: Westcott High
“After all, the only thing that hurts more than tears shed is tears unshed.”
Source: Have You Seen Luis Velez?
“After all the pain life went on... So it goes.”
“After all, the past was no less ridiculous than the present. Both eras were made up of humans.”
Source: Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.”
Source: The Host
“After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.”
“After all, the purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.”
Source: Think again: the power of knowing what you don’t know
“After all the shit that went down with Calease, I hate sleeping the way some people hate airplanes. Or small, dark spaces. Or spiders. Or being on an airplane in a small, dark space filled with spiders.”
Source: Sing Sweet Nightingale
“After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.”
“After all the stops and starts, we keep coming back to these two hearts. Two angels rescued from the fall, and after all that we've been through, it all comes down to me and you. I guess it's meant to be, forever, you and me, after all.”
“After all, the thing that looks most ordinary might be the thing that leads you to victory.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!”
“After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.”
“After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.”
“After All, The universe worked in strange and mysterious ways.”
Source: The Safe Place
“After all, the vine is still wrapped around the outside of her home, rows of large sheets of arresting leaves embracing the columns of her front porch, both spilling inside and trailing out to the waiting world beyond her doorstep.”
Source: Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
“After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?”
“after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“After all, the world does (in large measure) reward authentic work. The problem is not absolute, but temporal: by the time your reward arrives, you may no longer be around to collect it....at any given moment, the world offers vastly more support to work it already understands — namely, art that’s already been around for a generation or a century. Expressions of truly new ideas often fail to qualify as even bad art — they’re simply viewed as no art at all.”
Source: Art and Fear
“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“After all the years of [spiritual] work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our hearts.”
“After all, there are only two places where truly great men live, in books and in memories.”
Source: Glimpses of My Worldview
“After all, there is no advice which I can give you which you will not find plainly set down in the Book your mother taught you to reverence and love; and I therefore commend you to God, and to the word of His grace.”
Source: Story of Charles Ogilvie
“After all, there is no alternative: living means feeling.”
Source: End Emotional Eating: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Cope with Difficult Emotions and Develop a Healthy Relationship to Food
“After all, there's a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm,”
Source: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
“After all, there’s no sort of guarantee when it comes to love, nor about feeling any sort of way that leaves you attached to another person. We’re unpredictable, almost toxic in a way. If there’s anything I’ve learned since the first day I made this discovery, it’s the fact that we shouldn’t have the sort of relationship that we do. We shouldn’t associate with one another. I shouldn’t care about you. Because like I claimed already, there’s inevitably going to be one person who cares more than the other person does, who feels more than the other person does. And in learning this, in learning that I care more about you than you do about me, I’ve found that I’ve given you the uncanny ability to break me down and, above all else, to destroy me.”
“After all, there's nothing more dangerous than love.' She looked up, her breath catching. 'You might find yourself losing your wits entirely. Of worse, your heart.”
Source: Upon a Frosted Star
“After all, there's nothing more dangerous than love.' She looked up, her breath catching. 'You might find yourself losing your wits entirely. Or worse, your heart.”
Source: Upon a Frosted Star
“After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.”
Source: The Getting of Wisdom
“After all these little adventures, the postwoman finally arrived. The grass smelled sweet and the sky was bright. She couldn’t wait to deliver her letter at last”
Source: The Postwoman and Other Stories