A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“After every practice, you walk out a new person.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“After every rainfall there's a rainbow because rainbows are a promise. A promise that there will always be a light in the darkness. That's why they are too beautiful to overlook.' His hand crept along my cheek, brushing away the fallen strands of my hair. The same strange look came over him, as if he wasn't present at all, but somewhere else, in a strange memory. "You, Norah, are our light."
I swallowed hard. "Where's the darkness?"
His eyes were trained, like he was under a spell, unable to move away or stop looking at me. "Where you aren't.”
Source: The Forgotten Fairytales
“After every shirt she looks at me and smiles, letting go of air she no longer needs. She laughs after the sweater, knowing I’m gonna tell her it’s too hot for it, knowing she’ll say it’s for the plane and ask “what if the room gets cold?”
Source: Book of She
“After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’”
“After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.”
“After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.”
Source: The School of Life
“After Every Storm There Is A Rainbow”
“After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.”
“After every storm, there comes clear open skies.”
“After every sunny day, comes a stormy night”
“After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.”
“After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music.”
“After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”
Source: Manners & Mutiny
“After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“After every war someone has to tidy up.”
Source: Poems New and Collected
“After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.”
“After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.”
“After everything happened with you and me, I tried to heal. I knew that I needed to forget you and move on. I hurt so much; everyday felt like a death sentence. I mourned you like you were dead and then, I met Leah. We were set up on a blind date and I remember feeling hope that day. It was the first day in a year that I felt hope. We took our time getting to know each other, I bought her a ring.” He shot me a look to see if I remembered the iceberg.
“And then, all of a sudden I missed you again. I mean, I never stopped missing you, but this time it hit me hard. I couldn’t go to sleep for a single night without seeing you in my dreams. I compared everything Leah did to everything I remembered about you. It was like the old wound opened itself up again and I was bleeding out my feelings for you.” I close my eyes at his words. Words that I want to hear badly but that are making my heart ache so terribly I can barely breathe.”
Source: The Opportunist
“After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.”
Source: Forever
“After everything I have experienced in Iraq over the years, there is hardly any disaster that can take me by surprise...Not even death itself will get the pleasure of taking me by surprise at this point.”
“After everything I have worked for over the years, people unfamiliar with my work still ask me, do I support the lgbt movement? And with my habitual patience, I respond - what's there to support! Do you support people drinking water? Water is not something you support or don't support - water is the fundamental of life. Likewise, love is not something you support or don't support - love is the bedrock of life - or better yet, love is life.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“After everything I've been through, the last thing I'm going to apologize for is my paranoia”
“After everything is said and done, a memory remains a treacherous thing…How long does one cling on to the people they’ve lost? How long could I have remembered my grandfather? How long had it been since I forgotten him and my mind began harbouring other things?”
Source: Ashes, Wine and Dust
“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”
“After everything that’s happened, nothing can ever change what I feel about you. Not the dark past, nor the uncertain future. What matters is us, now. Nothing else.”
Source: The Billionaire's Widow
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“After everything they had been through the past few days and all the selfless acts of bravery, it felt really nice to do something selfish.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“After everything, what we have left is not what we make to have a living but what we make out of living.”
Source: Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing
“After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.”
Source: Sacrifice
“After Evie had finished her plate, Sebastian tugged her to the billiards table and handed her a cue stick with a leather tip. Ignoring her attempts to refuse him, he proceeded to instruct her in the basics of the game. “Don’t try to claim this is too scandalous for you,” he told her with mock severity. “After running off with me to Gretna Green, nothing is beyond you. Certainly not one little billiards game. Bend over the table.”
She complied awkwardly, flushing as she felt him lean over her, his body forming an exciting masculine cage as his hands arranged hers on the cue stick. “Now,” she heard him say, “curl your index finger around the tip of the shaft. That’s right. Don’t grip so tightly, sweet…let your hand relax. Perfect.” His head was close to hers, the light scent of sandalwood cologne rising from his warm skin. “Try to imagine a path between the cue ball—that’s the white one—and the colored ball. You’ll want to strike right about there”—he pointed to a place just above center on the cue ball—“to send the object ball into the side pocket. It’s a straight-on shot, you see? Lower your head a bit. Draw the cue stick back and try to strike in a smooth motion.”
Attempting the shot, Evie felt the tip of the cue stick fail to make proper contact with the white ball, sending it spinning clumsily off to the side of the table.
“A miscue,” Sebastian remarked, deftly catching the cue ball in his hand and repositioning it. “Whenever that happens, reach for more chalk, and apply it to the tip of the cue stick while looking thoughtful. Always imply that your equipment is to blame, rather than your skills.”
Evie felt a smile rising to her lips, and she leaned over the table once more. Perhaps it was wrong, with her father having passed away so recently, but for the first time in a long while, she was having fun.
Sebastian covered her from behind again, sliding his hands over hers. “Let me show you the proper motion of the cue stick—keep it level—like this.” Together they concentrated on the steady, even slide of the cue stick through the little circle Evie had made of her fingers. The sexual entendre of the motion could hardly escape her, and she felt a flush rise up from the neck of her gown. “Shame on you,” she heard him murmur. “No proper young woman would have such thoughts.”
A helpless giggle escaped Evie’s lips, and Sebastian moved to the side, watching her with a lazy smile. “Try again.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.”
“After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.”
Source: How to Improve Your Mind
“After explaining why you're in trouble, ask the creditor if the company would be willing to accept a smaller amount. Start negotiations at about 30% of the total amount due, with the end goal of paying 50%.”
“After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.”
“After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. Some people were like, 'You mean I've been eating a dangerous chemical?' While most people were like, 'You mean I can eat my yoga mat?'”
“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating slapsticks to shatter silenced desolation and pent-up rage, restoring self-value and broken identity.”
Source: Stilling our Mind
“After failure, it is possible to keep going– and to fail better.”
“After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915
“After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.”
“After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.”
“After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.'”
“After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.”
“After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?”
“After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.”
“After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.”
Source: Fight Club
“After filing a complaint against a police officer, it is unlikely the police blue brotherhood will ever uphold your legal rights again!”
“After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.”
“After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.”
“After finals and winter break...after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend like it or not, we'll go get him. And then...' I trailed off. 'And then we'll finish this. Next semester, this thing ends.”