A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All of you cowboys, fight for your land.”
“All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him”
“All of you gotta protect our town. The name they gave us is Bofurin. The chime of the wind breaker. Live up to that name. Protect the people, the things, the memories... protect everything that's important to you.”
“All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!”
“All of you here at this Planning Meeting know from past experience, Earth is the toughest of all learning planets. Inevitably it changes you forever, even if you dare to incarnate on earth only once.
Sacrificing all that you know in your heavenly world, you agree to inhabit a fragile human body, living in a world brimming with fear, pain, loneliness; greed, anger, and all the other illusions.”
Source: Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.
“All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.”
Source: Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
“ALL OF YOU KEEP THE HABIT OF READING MY BOOKS LIKE BHAGAVAD
GITA, LIVING ENLIGHTENMENT, FOR A FEW MINUTES EVERYDAY”
“All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas.”
“All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.”
“All of you. Why are you … being …” I struggled for the right word. “Nice?”
“We’re courting you,” Andel said, like it was obvious, even though he was sitting there doing nothing.
I burst out laughing. I couldn’t help myself. It bubbled through me in a wave of hysteria, persisting until my throat was raw. “You’ve blinded me,” I said, still chuckling, though I no longer sounded amused. “You’re dragging me, blind, through unforgivable
terrain. You’re only allowing me one small meal a day. You ignore me most of the time, insult me the rest of the time, and threaten to kill me every now and then just for good measure. You lead me around by a chain like a dog. This isn’t courting. This is enslavement.”
Source: A City of Whispers
“All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy.”
“All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.”
“All of your body is in your mind, but not all of your mind is in your body.”
“All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.”
“All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.”
“All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.”
“All of your fears and thoughts were mine, you were so scared but it was beyond divine.”
“All of your good qualities become obscured by your super-cleverness and are made useless to the world merely because of your rage at wanting to know everything better than others; of wanting to improve and master what you cannot command … If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying.” (Johanna Schopenhauer, writing to her son, Arthur Schopenhauer)”
“All of your life you have been told that God created you. I come now to tell you this: You are creating God.”
“All of your power is in the present moment. Grounding is the process that helps keep us in the present.”
Source: African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
“All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.”
Source: Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
“All of your quotes are getting on my nerves.”
“All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.”
“All offences come from the heart.”
Source: The chronicle history of Henry the Fift. 1608. The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts (no date) The tragedie of Richard the Third. 1612. The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus. 1611. The history of Troylus and Cresseida. 1609
“All office workers are afraid of being late for work.”
Source: The Post Office Girl
“All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.”
“All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.”
Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
“All old building become crypts the moment they're finished, A shrine to a time that's already dead.”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.”
“All on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."”
“All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!”
“All onboard said the captain but nevertheless the engineer who prepared the ship to be ready at sea”
“All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.”
“All one can do is live the life that God gave you, and you know, you just do the best you can. And if somebody likes you or doesn't like you, that's really, in many ways, something you have no control over.”
“All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.”
“All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.”
“All one great big lie.”
“All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.”
Source: The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
“All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“All one must do is remember basic math. If one system that administers medical payments require hundreds of duplicate services, equipment, software, & databases, and must make profits for passive investors, and must pay thousands of executives millions of dollars, then it is mathematically impossible for that system to be more efficient than one that must provide the same medical payments without those expenses and overhead.
Not even an inordinate amount of waste and fraud in any single-payer system would likely match the legalized fraud of the private healthcare insurance system. It is simply basic math.”
Source: It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors
“All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.”
Source: Wikinomics
“All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.”
“All one needs to do is just to go to any hospital in America and see the number of Pakistani or Indian or Lebanese, or Syrian, or Egyptian doctors, who are either first generation or themselves immigrants, to know, and I'm a big believer - brains are distributed evenly around the world. What aren't distributed evenly are opportunities, stable government, educational institutions, etc.”
“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.”
“All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.”
“All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.”
“All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.”
“All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.”
“All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.”