A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All other women were allowed to be ugly, to be hideous, to have all kinds of defects and flaws in their appearance. But I had to be pretty; if I did not look good, I had lost any right to exist, to be a woman ......”
Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
“All others are outside myself;
I lock my door and bar them out
The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.
I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?
If I could once lay down myself,
And start self-purged upon the race
That all must run ! Death runs apace.”
“all ought to be common among friends.”
Source: Penguin Island
“All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.”
Source: This Business of Living
“All our achievements have made us the masters of this planet, but unbeknownst to all, in the pursuit of mechanical greatness, we ourselves have turned into a peaceless, mechanical species in pieces.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“All our acts have sacramental possibilities.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish”
Source: The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine
“All our adult lives we have been apartment people; houses are an immense and wondrous mystery. So much space. So many things that can go wrong.”
Source: State of Paradise
“All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.”
“All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.”
Source: Sermons
“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.”
Source: An Age of License: A Travelogue
“All our anxieties relate to time.”
“All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.”
“All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.”
“All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.”
“All our best heroes are losers”
Source: In Bed with Jocasta
“All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.”
Source: Pomes All Sizes: Pocket Poets Number 48
“All our blasphemies are only little prayers.”
“All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well”
“All our categories have thus entered the age of the factitious: no more wanting - only getting people to want; no more doing - only getting people to do; no more being worth something - merely getting something to be worth something (witness advertising in general); no more knowing - only letting know; and, last but not least, not so much enjoying, not so much taking pleasure, as getting people to enjoy, getting people to take pleasure. This is the great problem of the moment: to take sexual pleasure serves no purpose - we are supposed to give sexual pleasure, whether to ourselves or to others. Such pleasure has become an act of communication: I am your guest, you are my guest - we exchange pleasure as part of a performative interactivity. Anyone who seeks gratification without communication is a pig. Do communication machines have orgasms? That is another story - but if we try to imagine orgasmic machines, we can do so only by reference to the model of communication machines. As a matter of fact, such orgasmic machines already exist in the shape of our own bodies - bodies coaxed into coming by the subtlest of cosmetic and pleasure-inducing technologies.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“All our children have are us until they are forced to face the world. We can prepare them for greatness.”
Source: Humanism from the Heart: Building Bridges Beyond Belief
“All our children's hopes and dreams turn to ashes in exam papers - their delicate baby wings crack under the weight of books - the classroom ends up as prison and to dream becomes a criminal offence. This is not education, this is bestiality.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.”
“All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.”
“All our current media concerns have in French the suffix '-aire': identitaire (issues of identity), sanitaire (health concerns), securitaire ('law and order'), humanitaire (humanitarianism). The whole lot being publicitaire (promotional). There is in this suffix something which quite aptly characterizes our culture as funerarium of received ideas and single-track thinking.”
Source: Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000
“All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.”
“All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately,
Though they look like desires mental or sensory;
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Source: Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme
“All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.”
“All our dignity lies in our thoughts.”
“All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
Source: Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe
“All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.”
“All our dreams can manifest in life not because we are white or black, but because we believe.”
“All our efforts must tend towards light.”
“All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.”
Source: Clearing the ground
“All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.”
“All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.”
“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.”
“All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself”
“All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.”
Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want
“All our failures are ultimately failures in love.”
“All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.”
Source: Love and will
“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
“All our finite decisions are taken in a very transient emotional stage.”
Source: Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”
“All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.”
“All our good deeds cannot save us.
We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.”
“All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.”
“All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.”
“All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.”