A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Agent Tanner sagte, dass die NSA sich etwas einfallen lasseb will. Anselm und Hannah haben sich eben spontan entschlossen, auf Weltreise zu gehen. Postkarten, E-mails, ja, sogar Telefonate von unterwegs sind kein Problem.”
Source: Das Rätsel der Templer
“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.”
“Agentic AI in security is like a seasoned chess grandmaster, anticipating threats and countering moves before they unfold on the board. It dynamically adapts to new vulnerabilities, proactively fortifying systems against sophisticated cyber attacks.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.”
“Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.”
“Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.”
“Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.”
“Agents are probably going to hate me for saying it... You're not very valuable when you're making $20 million. When you're Mike Trout, making the minimum, you are crazy valuable. My first six years, before I was a free agent, I was very valuable. But there's nothing you can do that can justify a $20 million contract.”
“Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.”
“Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.”
“Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.”
“Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.”
“Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.”
“Agents' swords aren't just good for ghosts, they can also be used for whipping cheeky night watch kids. Want us to show you?”
Source: The Whispering Skull
“Ages ago my gran knitted a sweater for my dad. He wore it and wore it and wore it right out. Then my other gran, who lives with us, unraveled it and knitted a new sweater for me. So I'd save that sweater. Both grans and my dad- maybe this will sound silly, but when I'm wearing it, it's kinda like all three of them are keeping me warm.”
Source: The One Thing You'd Save
“Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.”
“Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama
“Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.”
Source: Studies in Judaism: Essays on Persons, Concepts, and Movements of Thought in Jewish Tradition
“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.”
“Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. Marriage cannot be cut off from its cultural, religious, and natural roots without weakening this good influence on society. Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all.”
“Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.”
“Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.”
“Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.”
Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.”
“Aggiungo che a pensarci bene quest'Italia non è un'Italia ideale. È un'Italia che nonostante tutto esiste. Zittita, ridicolizzata, sbeffeggiata, diffamata, insultata, ma esiste. Quindi guai a chi me la tocca. Guai a chi me la invade. Guai a chi me la ruba.”
Source: The Rage and the Pride
“aggiunse Lady Danbury”
Source: Un uomo da conquistare
“Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?”
“Aggregating is only a part of what we do: HuffPost offers a combination of original blog posts (approximately 200 a day), original reporting, syndicated news (like from AP) that we pay for, and licensed content (via content-sharing partnerships). Original blog posts and pieces from our reporters account for more than 40 percent of all content viewed on HuffPost.”
“Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.”
“Aggression and passion are needed in studies too. We must bring in our aggression and passion from the sports field to our studies to win.”
“Aggression in a dog is similar to aggression in a human. We re both scared of what we don't understand, and our need to protect leads to aggression. Changing that aggression in a dog is more complex because the dog doesn't speak English, so I had to learn to speak dog.”
Source: Penelope's Bully
“Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.”
Source: The Sales Warrior Within
“Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.”
“Aggression is just where politeness is ignored.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Aggression is not a breed thing. Its a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.”
“Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.”
“Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“Aggression is simply another name for government.”
“Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.”
“Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.”
Source: Men, women, and aggression
“Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.”
“Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.”
“Aggression knows no distinction between human and inhuman action.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you’re gonna get off your plan and that means you’ll lose the fight.”
“Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.”
“Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance