A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All history is incomprehensible without Christ.”
“All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.”
Source: The Gargoyle
“All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.”
“All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works
“All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.”
Source: The First Circle
“All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.”
Source: The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays
“All history is the history of thought.”
“All history is the history of unintended consequences.”
“All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.”
“All history should be taught through rap by Lin-Manuel Miranda”
“all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!”
“All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.”
Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe
“All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.”
Source: Uncommon Sense
“All history was at first oral.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”
“All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.”
Source: Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972
“All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.”
“All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“All honest effort produces lessons. We must embrace every type of learning, even failure.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.”
“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”
Source: The Building of the City Beautiful
“All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!”
Source: Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times ...
“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”
Source: Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie
“All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“All hoods make not monks.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here. (lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate)”
Source: The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”
Source: The divine comedy
“All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.”
“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”
Source: Lady chatterleys lover
“all hopes there, so close to each other,
are pulled into the void every night;
when a band of pale twinkles milking the way
across the divine breadth of sky
where every heart belongs.
- From the poem "The Universe In Blossom”
“All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“All hugs are not created equal. Some people are naturally gifted in showering others with warmth and affection. They can hug with such a sincere intention it transcends a handshake. Their hugs feel genuine, non-threatening, and are emotionally consistent with the relationship they share with the "hugee.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.”
“All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!”
“All human accomplishments motivated by love are fulfilling in the end”
“All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.”
“All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.”
“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
Source: Selected Works
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.”
“All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.”
“All human activity is prompted by desire.”
Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics
“All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.”
“All human advances occur in the outlaw area.”
“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”
Source: Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels
“All human behavior is either an act of love
or a cry for love.”