A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.”
“All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.”
Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
“All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.”
“All men are short of money, especially the rich ones. That my friend is capitalism.”
“All men are sinners.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.”
“all men are the same age.”
Source: Complete Stories
“All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.”
“All men are villains. He was afraid, I realized, and I wonder now if it was because he his proclamation made him a villain too.”
Source: The Kingdom of Back
“All men are villains'. He was afraid, I realized, and I wonder now if it was because his proclamation made him a villain too.”
Source: The Kingdom of Back
“All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.”
“All men are weak,’ said Phin. ‘That’s the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.”
“All men are weak,' said Phin.
'That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.'
My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.”
Source: The Family Upstairs
“All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.”
“All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.”
Source: Somnambulism and other stories
“All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.”
“All men, at some level or the other, are liars. Fortunately there is a cure. They can all become a fine creature, provided their nuts are taken off with pliers.”
“All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.”
Source: The Mark of the Christian
“All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.”
Source: Off Armageddon Reef
“All men begin their learning with Homer.”
“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“All men by nature desire to know.”
Source: Metaphysics
“All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.”
Source: Metaphysics
“All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...”
“All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.”
“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”
Source: The Illustrated Art of War
“All men can see these tactics
Whereby I master;
But out of which evolve profits
None can see the character.
Strategy without character
Is the slowest route to profits;
Tactics without strategy
Is the noise before loses”
Source: The Art of Investing
“All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.”
“all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.”
Source: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
“All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.”
“All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.”
“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.”
“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies
“All men desire by nature to know.”
“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.”
“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.”
Source: The Phantom Public
“All men desire to be immortal.”
Source: A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846
“All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.”
“All men die, but not all men really live.”
“All men die. Only a few ever live.”
“All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.”
Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs
“All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.”
“All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.”
“All men dream, all men have a dream, all men want a dream.... I have none, What shall I put in its stead? I do not know.Melancholy is my only companion, and she does not dream either.”
Source: Frankenstein's Monster
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
“All men either consciously or subconsciously crave for authority over their environment, especially over their peers in the society, male and female alike. Women on the other hand, crave for intimacy especially from their female peers in the society. Colloquially this is what you call “gossiping”.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!”