A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All compliments are not created equal. Some may change the trajectory of a person’s life, while others fall on deaf ears. Is it well deserved or earned? People will remember you fondly when you have affirmed them in a positive way. Paying compliments creates good will, happy moments, and makes you more likable in return.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“All composite things decay. Strive diligently.”
“All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.”
“All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!”
“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.”
Source: Your Faith is Your Fortune
“All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.”
“All concepts, including those of “unity” and of "duality," are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.”
Source: The Life Of One Kid
“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”
Source: Sophocles: Fragments
“All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton. And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.”
“All concord's born of contraries.”
Source: Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory
“All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.”
“All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.”
“All confessions are Odysseys.”
“All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.”
“All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.”
“All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?”
Source: Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series
“All conflict comes from attachment.”
Source: Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality
“All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.”
“All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.”
“All conflicts are rooted in emotions. If you can satiate the emotions, you can resolve the conflicts.”
“All conflicts can be resolved. Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them. Peace is a question of will.”
“All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.”
Source: Mark Twain and the Government
“All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.”
“All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most.”
“all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.”
“All consciousness is consciousness of something”
“All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.”
“All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
“All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at our expense? Their "naturally superior talents" include unprincipled and illegal subterfuge such as price-fixing, stock manipulation, insider training, fraud, tax evasion, the legal enforcement of unfair competition, ecological spoliation, harmful products and unsafe work conditions. One might expect naturally superior people not to act in such rapacious and venal ways. Differences in talent and capacity as might exist between individuals do not excuse the crimes and injustices that are endemic to the corporate business system.”
Source: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.”
“All considerations
for these human remains!
They must have an escort!
They are classified!”
Source: Love Poems
“All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.”
“All constitutions are mere books,
All scriptures are mere books,
Even my books are mere books.
Nothing is above scrutiny,
Nothing is infallible.
Till you get this simple fact,
No society is reparable.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc
“All constructive thought, on the various special topics of scientific interest, is dominated by some such scheme, unacknowledged, but no less influential in guiding the imagination. The importance of philosophy lies in its sustained effort to make such schemes explicit, and thereby capable of criticism and improvement.”
Source: Process and reality: an essay in cosmology
“All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand. We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.”
“All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.”
“All contemporary world religions impose a moral framework upon their adherents, thereby enabling terrorists to present their conflicts in morally absolute dichotomies, such as good versus bad or righteous versus evil. While legitimizing one's own cause, religions are particularly effective at demonizing those with opposing views. The history of religion is replete with examples in which in-group passions are aroused and out-group hatreds are dangerously ingnited.”
Source: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence
“All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".”
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
“All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“All controlling behavior is a contractive reaction and misuse of power exacted to make another fulfill your conscious and unconscious needs. People who control others are often protecting themselves from being controlled. It is a survival mechanism ruled by fear.”
“All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.”
“All conversation had stopped. Following the guests’ collective gazes, Cam saw something—a lizard?—wriggling and slithering its way past sauceboats and salt cellars. Without hesitation he reached out and captured the small creature, cupping it in closed hands. The lizard squirmed furiously in the space between his closed palms.
“I’ve got it,” he said mildly.
The vicar’s wife half fainted, slumping back in her chair with a low moan.
“Don’t hurt him!” Beatrix Hathaway called out anxiously. “He’s a family pet!”
The assembled guests glanced from Cam’s closed hands to the Hathaway girl’s apologetic face.
“A pet?… What a relief,” Lady Westcliff said calmly, staring down the length of the table at her husband’s blank countenance. “I thought it was some new English delicacy we were serving.”
A swift wash of color darkened Westcliff’s face, and he looked away from her with fierce concentration. To anyone who knew him well, it was obvious he was struggling not to laugh.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.”
Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others
“All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.”
“All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.”