A Quotes
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“Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way.”
Source: The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring
“Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.”
Source: Selected poems
“Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.”
“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapened paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine,
Which, spent with due respective thrift,
Had made brutes men and men divine.”
Source: Poems: The angel in the house. The victories of love
“Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.”
Source: A Heritage and its History
“Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.”
“Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.”
“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”
Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places
“Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.”
“Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.”
“Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.”
“Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.”
“Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.”
Source: The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion
“Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.”
“Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺ ʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.”
“Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“Ah, well.” He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration. With a nod and a respectful, “Ma’am,” he left her in the middle of the room. Feeling like she’d been hit by a tank.”
Source: To the Brink
“Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes
“Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!”
Source: Poems of George Meredith
“Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!”
“Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!”
Source: Religious Poems
“Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]”
“Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!”
Source: The Second Part of Henry the Sixth: With the Death of the Good Duke Humphry : a Tragedy
“Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.”
Source: Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to
“Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“Ah, what balance is needed at
the edges of such an abyss.
I am left alone on the surface
of a turning planet. What
to do but, like Michelangelo's
Adam, put my hand
out into unknown space,
hoping for the reciprocating touch?”
“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
“Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.”
“Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
should nature keep me alive,
if I find the world so bitter
when I am but twenty-five?”
“Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.”
“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”
Source: Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor
“Ah, when shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?”
“Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong!
Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long
Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!”
Source: Selected poems
“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
“Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.”
“Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!”
Source: Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems
“Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.”
Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
“Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?”
“Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?”
Source: The Portable Milton
“Ah, why should life all labor be?”
“Ah, why Should life all labour be?”
“Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?”
“Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.”
“Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!”
“Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.”
“Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.”