A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.”
“All clichés aside, sometimes a girl just needed to cry in the rain.”
Source: Beautiful Bedlam
“All clients think that they are architects.”
“All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.”
“All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.”
“All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.”
“All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.”
“All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.”
“All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.”
“All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.”
“All color is no color.”
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
“All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.”
Source: Pale fire
“All colours are arbitrary.”
“All colours will agree in the dark.”
“All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796
“All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.”
“All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.”
“All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.”
“All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.”
“All comedy comes from a dark place.”
“All comes at last to feeling;
Name is but sound and smoke,
Beclouding Heaven's warm glow.”
Source: Faust, First Part
“All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.”
“All comes out even at the end of the day.”
“All comfort, all goodness, all hope was burning in this black figure which my eyes would not let go, even as it dwindled, and lost all perpetual form.”
Source: The Vampire Armand
“All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.”
“All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon it. The rich young ruler went away from Jesus "sorrowful." Everybody does. Not only estrangement from God, but also estrangement from oneself. And the universe! And from life! You are not at home with life, unless you are at home with Life. And Jesus is Life!”
“All commandments that I give must be obeyed unless they are revoked by me or by my authority and how can I revoke an everlasting covenant for I the Lord am everlasting and my everlasting covenants cannot be abrogated nor done away with but stand forever.”
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”
“All common investments have a great feature; the maximum amount you can lose is your capital.”
“All common minds are trapped within the world, and within it, themselves.”
“All communication begins with an intention,
and your intention determines the quality of your life.”
“All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.”
Source: Reason, Faith, & Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
“All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.”
“All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.”
Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others
“All communication must lead to change”
“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government.”
“All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.”
“All communities, and low-income communities especially because of food insecurity and lack of access to healthy foods, need more farmers markets, need more community gardens and urban farms. It would be great if people living in communities had the tools and resources to grow food in their own backyard - community-based food systems.”
“All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.”
“All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.”
“All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don' t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.”
“All companies have many opportunities. Strategy is about allocation of resources and priorities.”
“All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.”
“All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.”
“All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.”
“All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.”
“All complaining comes from pride.”