A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”
“Agaknya sang waktulah yang paling perkasa dalam kehidupan. Ia tak tersaing,Tak pernah mengeluh. Tak pernah juga merasa takut. Sementara manusia -saya dan anda- berlanjut usia, berlanjut pula tulahnya.”
Source: Kembang Jepun
“Agama bisa membuat orang merasa benar.
Merasa benar mendidik orang jadi sombong.
Bersikap sombong itu mendahului kegagalan.”
“Agama, sebaliknya tidak mengklaim untuk jadi petunjuk praktis pengubah dunia. Semangat agama yang paling dasar menimbang hidup sebagai yang masih terdiri dari misteri, memang ada orang agama yang seperti kaum Marxis, menyombong bahwa “segala hal sudah ada jawabnya pada kami”; tapi pernyataan itu menantang makna doa—dan mematikan ruh religius itu sendiri. Sebab dalam doa, kita tahu, kita hanya debu”
“agama tidak lagi menjadi syariat dan jalan kehidupan
sebaliknya menjadi bahan untuk dirobek dicaing-caing
oleh akal fikiran dan pisau purba zaman pencerahan
yang diasah oleh kata-kata demi kata-kata - kebebasan
(Perjalanan 2)”
Source: Perjalanan Sang Zaman
“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate!
CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
“AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.
ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.”
Source: Ajax
“Agapanthus and peonies in June. Scented stock and sweet peas in July. Sunflowers and sweet William in August. By the time September's oriental lilies and ornamental cabbages appeared, she wasn't hiding upstairs in the workroom anymore. She was spending more time in the shop, answering the phone, dealing with the customers. One Sunday she spent the afternoon at an allotment belonging to a friend of Ciara's, picking lamb's ear and dusty miller and veronica for a wedding, and didn't think about Michael once, but she kept remembering a Patrick Kavanagh poem she'd learned at school, the one about how every old man he saw reminded him of his father.”
Source: The Flower Arrangement
“Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.”
Source: Sex God
“Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor (I Cor. 10:24). Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely "neighbor-regarding concern for others," which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community. It is insistence on community even when one seeks to break it. Agape is a willingness to sacrifice in the interest of mutuality. Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore community. It doesn't stop at the first mile, but it goes the second mile to restore community. It is a willingness to forgive, not seven times, but seventy times seven to restore community.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.”
“Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.”
Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
“Agape is total love. It is the love that consumes the person who experiences it. Whoever knows and experiences agape learns that nothing else in the world is important – just love.
- The Pilgrimage - Paolo Coelho”
“Agape love is strengthened by the person who expresses it - not by the person who receives it. In fact, the person who receives agape love does not have to show any appreciation at all.”
Source: How to Value Your Daughters
“Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.”
“Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.”
“Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.”
“Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.”
“Agar hidup terus berjalan, yang paling penting adalah keyakinan. semisal sakit hati oleh seseorang, selama yakin dia orang baik dan pasti ada alasan dibaliknya, itu mencegah kamu bereaksi terhadap rasa sakit itu.”
“Agar kita bisa menyayangi anak, kita perlu memahami apa sebetulnya hakikat dari anak itu sendiri, baik secara fisik, psikologis, maupun hukum. Bagaimana anak dipandang dari ketiga sudut pandang itu.”
“Agar otak mudah menjala ide, maka perlu membiasakan untuk berpikir, merenung serta membaca situasi dari fenomena apapun”
Source: socioteenpreneur
“agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.”
“Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.”
“Agarra una abeja desde la amabilidad y aprenderás las limitaciones de la amabilidad.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.”
“Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.”
“Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.”
“Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.”
“Agatha Clay: "I've never had coffee. Lilith said a young lady shouldn't drink stimulants."
Zeetha: "Drink your coffee like a warrior."
Agatha Clay: "...Yes, Zeetha.”
“Agatha: I… I didn’t realize there were other generals.
Mamma Gkika: Ho! Hyu just met dose three old ogres on Castle Wulfenbach, yez? Iz a good thing dere’s more of us den dot. Dun vorry. Ven dis iz all calmed down, ve’ll make sure huy meet all of us.
Agatha: … in the same room? At the same time?
Mamma Gkika: Dun vorry. Just bring a big stick.”
“Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."
Sophie: "But then I can't talk!”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“Agatha looked into the wolf's eyes. "I don't want to die,"
for the first time, his sneer softened.
"I didn't either.”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“Agatha of Woods Beyond."
He laid down the sword.
"Will you be my princess for the Ball?”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“Agatha was gone. Her best friend. Her soulmate.”
Source: A World Without Princes
“Agatha wondered whether in this room of heroes young and old, Hester was the greatest hero of all.”
Source: The Last Ever After
“Agathisim is the doctrine that all things tend towards ultimate good, as distinguished from optimism, which holds that all things are now for the best. An agathist accepts that evil and misfortune will ultimately happen, but that the eventual outcome leads towards the good. A setback never deters an agathist. We must not allow failure to act to arrest, diminished, or impoverish personal development and growth. We must be loyal to other people as well as be equally devoted to achieving our personal goals while adhering to our principles. If we betray ourselves at the bidding of other people, we forfeit everything that will ever matter.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Agaue was foaming at the mouth; her rolling eyes
Were wild; she was not in her right mind, but possessed”
Source: The Bacchae and Other Plays
“Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome.”
“Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
Source: The Cynic's Word Book
“Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.”
“Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s”
“Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Age 54
My goal is not to be paper-thin,
My goal is to be healthy again”
“Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.”
“Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline”
“Age affects how people experience time.”
“Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed”
Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures