A Quotes
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“Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!”
Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems
“Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.”
“Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.”
Source: New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time
“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.”
“Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”
Source: Dombey and Son
“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
Source: The fall, & Exile and the kingdom
“Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!”
Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: 2
“Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.”
Source: Bitter Blood: The Morganville Vampires
“Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.”
Source: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
“Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!”
“Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.”
“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!”
“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”
“Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.”
“Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!”
“Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!”
“Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?”
Source: The Maze Runner Movie Tie-In Edition (Maze Runner, Book One)
“Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?”
Source: Artemis Fowl:
“Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.”
“Ah, never shall the land forget
How gush'd the life-blood of the brave,
Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet,
Upon the soil they fought to save!”
“Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.” “Oh?” “Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.”
“Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.”
“Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.”
“Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.”
Source: The Goose Girl
“Ah, now, don't get all mushy on me. We ain't dating." Butch”
“Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.”
“Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.”
“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)
“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)
“Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.”
“Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.”
“Ah, passing few are they who speak,
Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
Thou art a welcome month to me.
For thou, to northern lands, again
The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
And thou hast joined the gentle train
And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.”
“Ah, paths of the soul, mysterious ways of the heart! One must walk their full lengths before facing the supreme equation of Eternal Life. It is essential for you to live all their conflicts and to know them fully in the long process of spiritual ascension.”
“Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair
“Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.”
Source: The Mikado and other Operas
“Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?”
Source: Sophocles Tragedies and Fragments
“Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.”
“Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.”
“Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.”
Source: Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice Book 9)
“Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164
“Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.”
Source: The Red and the Black
“Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.”
“Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.”
“Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!”