A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.”
“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
Source: The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel
“After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.”
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.”
“After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.”
Source: Paris to the Moon
“After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.”
“After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.”
Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”
Source: The Unsettled Dust
“After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.”
Source: The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter
“After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.”
“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great”
Source: The Secret History
“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”
Source: The wind in the willows
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
“After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.”
“After all, the living book of God's creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for which we were placed in nature. Nature is a continual admonition to us, for nowhere has God's creation departed so far from its origin and primeval purpose as in the human race.”
“After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.”
“After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.”
Source: QB VII
“After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.”
Source: Perfect Match
“After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.”
“After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.”
“After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.”
“After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.”
Source: The Shockwave Rider
“After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.”
“After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.”
“After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.”
“After all, the true seeing is within.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“After all, the U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.”
“After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.”
“After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.”
“After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.”
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“After all, the world is still great.”
“After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”
“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“After all, there is nothing but failure.”
Source: Yes
“After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.”
“After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
Source: Dreams From My Father
“After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!”
“After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.”
“After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.”
“After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.”
“After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.”
Source: Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes
“After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.”
“After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.”
“After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.”
“After all, tomorrow is another day.”
“After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood