A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ah, i rari vantaggi di uno Stato burocratico! Nella marea di pronunce idiote, obsolete o irrilevanti, nemmeno un santo poteva dirsi in regola su ogni cosa.”
Source: Le colpe dei Padri
“AH: I ruined our good time…why did I do that, doctor?
DR: We are our own worst enemies. If everyone could simply take joy from the mere fact that they are alive, well…I’d be out of business.
AH: So people ruin their own happiness?
DR: Many of them. It’s the human condition. By why? Ay, there’s the rub.”
Source: Hitler in the Madhouse
“Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.”
Source: The Invisible Chains - Part 2: Bonds of Fear
“Ah. I should have known. You’re one of us. … You’re someone who finds herself in the pages,”…”
Source: The Book of Lost Names
“Ah, I understand", murmured the imperial scapegrace. Turning to the room: "When Franz Ferdinand drinks", he cried, "everybody drinks!"
Which helped restore a level of civility in the room, and soon even of cheer, as smart neckties were soaked in suds, the piano player came back from under the bar, and people in the room resumed dancing syncopated two-steps. After a while someone started singing "All Pimps Look Alike to Me", and half the room joined in. Lew, however, noticing the way the Archduke seemed to keep inching stealthily but unmistakably toward the street door, thought it wise to do the same. Sure enough, just before sliding out the door, Der F. F., with a demonic grin, screamed: "And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!" whereupon he disappeared, and it was a near thing that Lew got out with his keester intact.”
Source: Against the Day
“Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.”
Source: The Angels of Perversity
“Ah! I wish you would fall in love. Love makes people good, and what you said was wicked.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray & Other Fantastic Tales
“Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“Ah, if only we were born roaring with laughter and took that emotional template through life with us! Whoever's in charge seriously messed up somewhere. I can only hope that right now, that selfsame Whoever is wryly relating their cock-up to some celestial colleague, who responds: 'Hey, you should put that in a book. LOL!”
“Ah, if there were a man brave enough to dare so much for love--!’
‘He stands before you. What will you give him?’
She got up, a hand at her bosom. ‘If he dares so much—I should have to give—myself, señor.’
‘Remember that promise!’ he warned her. ‘You shall be called upon to redeem it before a year is out.’
She looked fearfully at him. ‘But how? how?’
‘Dear heart,’ said Beauvallet frankly, ‘I do not know, but I shall certainly find a way.”
Source: Beauvallet
“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“Ah, it is a strange thing - Love's little fingers on the heart, making tenderness out of bitterness and changing weakness into strength! When once a woman's eyes, with understanding love, have looked into the very depths of a man's soul, he need seek no farther for the Philosopher's Stone.
As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of one. One flash of the love-light makes the whole world new, one chord of Love's music changes all sound to song, and one touch of Love's hand so glorifies the earth that it needs no other alchemy to make it truly gold.”
Source: Later Love Letters of a Musician
“Ah, it is impossible."
"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!”
Source: Capitola's Peril
“Ah! It is you again.
You enter in this house
Not as a kid in love, but as a husband
Courageous, harsh and in control.
The calm before the storm is fearful to my soul.
You ask me what it is that I have done of late
With given unto me forever love and fate.
I have betrayed you.
And this to repeat --
Oh, if you could one moment tire of it!
The killer's sleep is haunted, dead man said,
Death's angel thus awaits me at deathbed.
Forgive me now.
Lord teaches to forgive.
In burning agony my flesh does live,
And already the spirit gently sleeps,
A garden I recall, tender with autumn leaves
And cries of cranes, and the black fields around.
How sweet it would be with you underground!”
“Ah, it says that the City Council believes the reason for the violent reaction of the Shape Formerly in Grove Park that No One Acknowledges or Speaks about is because I have been acknowledging and speaking about it, which has made it angry. They urge me to stop speaking of it, and never do it again, and in exchange they'll move it somewhere else so we can get our front loading zone back.”
Source: Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.”
Source: Found
“Ah just act the way ah feel.”
“Ah, just like old times,” Janco said. “Oh, wait. What am I saying? It’s just like almost every time I’m with you, Yelena. Don’t you get tired of being arrested all the time?”
“You’re exaggerating,” I said.
“Oh, that’s right. I forgot about our last mission. We weren’t locked up, just tied down. My mistake.”
“Give it a rest, Janco,” Ari said.
“Yeah, well, it seems every time I’m in Sitia, I’m thrown into jail. Do you think they’ll stamp my frequent-visitor card? I think I get a prize if I’ve been in them all.”
Source: Night Study
“Ah, ka-lyrra, I look at you and you make me want to live a man's life with you. To wake with you and sleep with you, argue with you and make love with you, to get a silly human job and take walks in the park and live so tiny beneath such a vast sky.
But I will never stay with another human woman and water her die. Never.
--FROM THE (GREATLY REVISED) BLACK EDITION OF THE O'CALLAGHAN Book of the Sin Siriche Du”
Source: The Immortal Highlander
“Ah, kata 'pergi' lebih cocok menjadi judul sebuah novel dibanding 'alasan'.”
Source: Pergi
“Ah! keep my songs within your heart
(The heart that holds the singer too),
And never to the world impart
The music only meant for you.
Nor breathe one word, one tender word aloud,
Lest it be heard by the cold-hearted crowd.
To sing what only you can hear
Will keep my heart in perfect tune;
As sings the nightingale, when clear
Above her shines the summer moon,
And every tone of truthful love that flows
Is heard alone by the enraptured rose.”
“Ah, kenapa aku jadi memikirkan anak itu. Napasnya makin lama makin berat. Mengajak otaknya berhenti bekerja. Menyisakan sebersit kalimat. Tapi ia benar ayu.”
Source: Denting Lara
“Ah, Krispy Kreme. Every girl should have a guilty pleasure, no matter her age.”
Source: Folly Beach
“Ah, la felicidad busca la luz, por eso juzgamos que el mundo es alegre; pero el dolor se esconde en la soledad, por eso juzgamos que el dolor no existe.”
Source: Bartleby y otros cuentos
“Ah, Lalage! while life is ours,
Hoard not thy beauty rose and white,
But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers
That deck our little path of light:
For all too soon we twain shall tread
The bitter pastures of the dead:
Estranged, sad spectres of the night.”
Source: The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson
“Ah! Let the soul dance with joy!”
“Ah! Let the soul dance with joy
Let us sit in dark deep silence
now feel, see and enjoy!”
“Ah, Letty,’ he said, bowing his head. ‘You were never lost. You were only following your dream.”
Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“ah, life—
the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
& wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“Ah, life… ’tis a difficult battle to fight,' said Willoughby, 'but the beautiful moments will always make up for the sorrow.”
Source: Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods
“Ah, like how Sharon Parker’s bra kind of found its way into your locker?”
He leaned in, resting his elbows on the table. “Are you going to constantly bring these things up the entire time we’re dating?”
“Sorry. Just using my prior knowledge to try and gauge what kind of fake boyfriend you’re going to make.”
“Well, if your bitterness is any indication of the kind of fake girlfriend you’re going to be, I won’t hold my breath for you to fake put out.”
Source: Wedding Date for Hire
“Ah! listen the song of storm from my disturbed soul;and it scatters flower buds into its lonely halls;like every pain needs a dirge,with wreaths that awful the world framed one for me,and gives the time it calls.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“Ah little recks the laborer,
How near his work is holding him to God,
The loving Laborer through space and time”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Ah, Lord God be merciful to us all!”
“Ah, love at first sight. When you see someone so beautiful that you forget they aren't there just for you.”
“Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.”
Source: Selected poems
“Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire
Would we not shatter it to bits-and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?”
Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.”
“Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.”
“Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant.”
Source: The Apartment of Sex
“Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be.”
Source: Skagboys
“Ah'm uh bitch's baby round lady people.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.”
Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train
“Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get her out of the room long enough for him to climb out the window and down the tree. He fell, broke his leg. Ah, to be young again.”
“Ah, manusia memang kebanyakan kaget, itu karena mereka punya terlalu banyak perkiraan. Jadi, kalau perkiraannya salah, kagetlah mereka.”
Source: Semua Ikan di Langit
“Ah, Mas Nganten ini. Bagi orang kebanyakan seperti sahaya ini kita kawin supaya semakin susah. Tentu beda dengan para priyayi besar, mereka kawin supaya jadi senang.”
Source: Gadis Pantai
“Ah, mas tudo bem. Com o tempo, todo mundo se acostuma. As pessoas esquecem umas das outras com tanta facilidade. Como é mesmo que minha mãe dizia? Quem não é visto, não é lembrado. Longe dos olhos, longe do coração. Pois é.”
“Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won’t get on board.”
Source: Immortal's Spring
“Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!”
Source: Our Mutual Friend