A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All blood runs red.”
“All blues singers are great liars.”
“All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light; planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves. (If your couch is emitting visible light GET UP IMMEDIATELY!)”
Source: Things That Are
“All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.”
“All bombing is terrorism.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.”
Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“All bones are white and our blood is red”
Source: The Azanian
“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”
Source: Sesame and Lilies
“All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.”
“All books are either dreams or swords.”
“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.”
“All books are good,' he said...
'They weren't bad books,' Phin countered patiently. 'They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.'
I nodded. I couldn't fault his logic.”
Source: The Family Upstairs
“All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.”
“All books are judged by their covers until they are read.”
Source: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling
“All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.”
Source: The Lost Story
“All books are merely delayed dust.”
“All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!”
“All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.”
“All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.”
“All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.”
“All bookshelves are magical.”
“All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.”
“All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.”
“All boxers are liars. Con men. The better the liar, the better the fighter. That’s because if you knew what was in a fighter’s heart, if you knew what he was really thinking, he’d be easier to find. And if you could find him, he’d be easier to hit. And if you could hit him, you might expose him. And that might expose every person they never stood up to and every person they never stood up for. A single blow can unveil the watermark of your soul in a way nothing else ever can.”
“All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.”
“All boys and girls should have the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, no matter what part of the country they live in and irrespective of whether their parents are rich or poor. It is the state's duty to make sufficient money available for the establishment of good public schools. A well-educated youth is crucial so that Chile can continue to grow economically.”
“All boys belong in insane asylums.”
“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They see men drinking, smoking, swearing; so these poor little fellows sedulously imitate such bad habits, thinking they are making themselves more like men. They mistake rudeness for strength, disrespect to parents for independence. They read wretched stories about boy brigands and boy detectives, and fancy themselves heroes when they break the laws, and become troublesome and mischievous. Out of such false influences the criminal classes are recruited. Many a little boy who only wishes to be manly, becomes corrupted and debased by the bad examples around him and the bad literature which he reads. The cure for this is to give him good books, show him truly noble examples from life and history, and make him understand how infinitely above this mock-manliness is the true courage which ennobles human nature.”
Source: Every-Day Religion
“All brains are good brains. However, information can affect the brain in ways that can distort its functioning. When negative information has taken over the natural workings of the brain, you could say that a good brain has become a bad brain. The brain naturally distinguishes positive information from negative, but sometimes we simply lose trust in our brain, allowing outside information to run the show.”
Source: Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life
“All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.”
“All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.”
“all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.”
“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”
“All bravery stands upon comparisons.”
Source: The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil ... Revised from the Early Copies, with the References Now First Supplied, and a Few Notes, by Thomas Markby
“All breaks in the narrative of living had more to do with the limits of what could be sustained at any one time, the reach of temporary exhaustion. Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.”
Source: Toll the Hounds
“All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.”
“All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.”
“All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.”
Source: Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose
“All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.”
“All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements”
“All broken things.
Augmented with hope of Gold.
A new Kentsugi Heart.
(Haiku)”
“All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.”
“All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.”
“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”
Source: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
“All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.”
Source: The Architecture of Community
“All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.”
“All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval”
“All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.”
“All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.”
“All business models have something challenging about them, but the problem with the attention merchant business model they have is they need to keep increasing the amount of ads they deliver to people and therefore make their product worse.”