A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.”
“After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.”
“After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.”
Source: The Devil's Waltz
“After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
“After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.”
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“After all, if we are co-creators of our reality, as so many philosophies have espoused, then we have a say in how it is, how it goes and our participation in it, right?”
“After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.”
“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
“After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.”
“After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.”
“After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans ... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les Anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them.”
“After all, in private, we're all misfits”
“After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.”
“After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.”
“After all, is football a game or a religion?”
“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?”
Source: Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light
“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?”
“After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.”
“After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.”
“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
Source: Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
“After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.”
“After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”
“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.”
“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.”
Source: Irving's Works
“After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.”
“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.”
Source: Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
“After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.”
“After all, it's me that needs to change, not my circumstances.”
“After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.”
Source: A Kingdom of Dreams
“After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.”
“After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.”
“After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.”
Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel
“After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.”
“After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.”
“After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.”
“After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.”
Source: Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman
“After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.”
“After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.”
Source: Matthew Arnold
“After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.”
“After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.”
Source: Second Glance
“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
Source: The letters of Edith Wharton
“After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.”
“After all, our Killers are our ...Brothers!!??”