A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All he said was, “I believe in you, Sophie Foster,” as he raised his pathfinder up to the silvery glow of the moonlight.
And Sandor added, “We all do.”
Source: Nightfall
“All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil. He didn't say, Martin Luther, you need to put our demands on the door.”
“All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.”
Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“All he wanted was enough time to consider all his options without being dragged into his household’s petty squabbles or being nagged by his wife about that damnable pilgrimage. Was that so much to ask?
Apparently so, for he’d yet to find a peaceful moment at Caen, not with Marguerite sulking and Aimar lurking and Will acting put-upon and Geoff wanting to lay plans and Richard strutting around as if he were the incarnation of Roland and poor Tilda grieving over Maman’s absence and his father refusing to heed any voice but his own.”
Source: Devil's Brood
“All he wanted was someone who would let him be alone but never let him feel lonely.”
“All healing is self-healing.”
“All health begins with how we perceive ourselves and our bodies.”
“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide”
“All heart' means when things are good, every color feels richer. Anything can happen. And it's like other people's joy rushes through you. When things get bad, it's like a giant black scribble tornadoes into your chest. Anything can happen. And other people's anger or sadness or disappointment, it just drowns you.”
Source: Danica dela Torre, Certified Sleuth
“All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.”
“All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“All heiresses are beautiful.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant
“All hell broke loose.”
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste'
'It seems big enough when you're in it, Sir.'
'And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good. If all Hell's miseries together entered the consciousness of yon wee yellow bird on the bough there, they would be swallowed up without trace, as if one drop of ink had been dropped into that Great Ocean to which your terrestrial Pacific is only a molecule'
'I see,' said I at last. 'She couldn't fit into Hell.”
Source: The Great Divorce
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.”
“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic.”
Source: What Is Ancient Philosophy?
“All hellos ultimately have their goodbyes. And all goodbyes hurt so much harder if the love they are founded on is so damn strong. Still, all hellos with people you love are worth it. They are all worth their weight in gold.”
Source: Hello Stranger
“All hells in this world are the prisons you make in your own heart; all battles must be fought there'," said Charlie. "My grandma used to say that to me.”
Source: City of Apocrypha
“All her body went instantly cold. Inside of the pocket there was a thorny branch of gorse flower, glowing in supernatural gold as she unveiled it in the dark. She turned around and faced Duamutef – utter silence as if words could cut the air.
‘Tomorrow,’ Duamutef uttered gravely ‘you must wish for your real desires.’
He paused.
‘If you don’t, I will.”
Source: El artefacto egipcio = The Egyptian Artefact
“All her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.”
Source: Beloved
“All her English professors say the best authors write what they know, but all Melanie knows is what has already been written. Petra is always on her case about going out into the world, experiencing things, but Melanie prefers to spend her time in her own reading chair at home. There she can sit with the quiet and not worry about filling a silence, coming up with something to add to a conversation. Petra always says Melanie is too worried about what people think, that Melanie truly believes no one will think what she has to say is worth listening to. Maybe Petra is right.”
Source: How to Survive a Horror Story
“All her focus was on the burning want Ronin was evoking in her as he pressed her back up against a pine. The rough bark sharply poked its way through her light jacket, digging into her skin, and the odd pain pushed her to increase the force of her kiss as she clawed at his back. His grip on her ass tightened, and Ronin groaned down her throat.”
Source: Little Conversations
“All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.”
“All her life, she believed that carrying so many things is what made her heart always heavier. But there came a day, when she finally realized that, what really makes it heavier is, not having anything there.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning in the direction of obvious things.”
Source: American War
“All her life, she'd tried to find ways to sneak out of the castle. Ironically, only last year, she'd discovered the best way to sneak out was to actually pay attention to her lessons. Her magic lessons, that was.
"Rays of sunshine," she whispered, "align!"
As soon as she spoke the words, a powerful ray of light shone upon Aurora, concealing her from the guards' views. It wouldn't last long, so she hastily clambered over the castle wall.”
Source: A Twisted Tale Anthology
“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing...It scaled walls and jumped over trenches. Sparks leapt like fleas and spread as rapidly; a breeze could carry embers for miles.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars.”
Source: The Tombs of Atuan
“All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.”
Source: Fireflood: and other stories
“All her life she had striven to do the right thing, but right according to whom?”
Source: The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul
“All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt. [...] The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake”
“All her life she’s felt like an open book, emotions dancing across her expression as fast as she feels them.”
Source: The Awakening of Lora Abernathy
“All her life, she wanted a house and a garden and a room of her own. But tucked inside that want was something else: a family. Parents who smothered her with love. Siblings who teased because they cared. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews—in her mind a family was a sprawling thing, an orchard full of roots and branches.”
Source: Gallant
“All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.”
“All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer - suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother - die suffering. Go-saeng - the word made her sick. Did mothers suffer by not telling their sons that suffering would come?”
Source: Pachinko
“All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer-- suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother-- die suffering. Go-saeng-- the word made her sick. What else was there besides this? She had suffered to create a better life for Noa, and yet it was not enough. Should she have taught her son to suffer the humiliation that she'd drunk like water? In the end, he had refused to suffer the conditions of his birth. Did mothers fail by not telling their sons that suffering would come?”
Source: Pachinko
“All her memories have a fragile nature to them. She needed it to be that way to fool herself and everyone else in the palace.”
Source: Vilest Things
“All her senses felt sharper, like she'd been living the past nine months on a flat page and someone had suddenly folded her into shape.”
Source: In a Dark Land
“All her worries and cares were in hiding.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”
“All heroes are shadows of Christ”
“All heroes could be monsters. They just choose not to be.”
“All heroes probably had doubts sometimes, she told herself. If she ever met Maximal Star, she would mention that he ought to write about the parts in between the daring rescues. The parts where you feel like a big time faker and failure.”
Source: Tumble & Blue
“All high altitude workers have a right to be fully informed about the complete range of environmental toxins that they are being exposed to and the known health issues in current and past workers, including what workers have died from.”
“All high altitude workers should have their hearing tested annually.”
“All high beauty has a moral element in it.”
Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty
“All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.”
Source: Don't Forget to Breathe
“All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time.”
Source: Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate