A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.”
“Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.”
Source: The Golden Apples
“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”
“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”
Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
“Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.”
“Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso
“Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.”
“Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.”
“Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death”
“Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have
established my identity.”
“Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.”
“Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.”
“Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.”
“Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!”
“Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.”
“Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.”
“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
Source: Dracula
“Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.”
“Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I’m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.”
“Ah, Kerry. You've found your heart. Who is she?" ... "A healer, but she's... gone.”
Source: Scent of Magic
“Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape. ~Uryu Ishida”
“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”
Source: Laughable Loves
“Ah, Lady Maccon, how lovely. I did wonder when you would track us down.” “I was unavoidably delayed by husbands and Ivys,” explained Alexia. “These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.”
“Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.”
Source: The Works of Gilbert Parker
“Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.”
Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
“Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.”
Source: Ultimate Magic
“Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!”
Source: The Young May Moon
“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.”
“Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!”
“Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.”
“Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.”
“Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.”
“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.”
Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)
“Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!”
Source: The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...
“Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.”
“Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!”
“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
“Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.”
“Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.”
Source: Fever
“Ah, man. (Talon) What? (Wulf) Friggin’ Fabio alert. (Talon) Hey, you’re not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf) Bite me, Viking. (Talon)”
“Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.”