A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.”
“All quiet along the Potomac.”
“All Quiet on the Western Front.”
“All quitters are good losers.”
“All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables.”
Source: Clean Architecture
“All racist people are liars who believe their own lies. They thrive on hating others.”
“All racists are irresponsible.”
“All rapists are visionaries!”
“All rappers are princesses like me.”
“All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.”
“All rather humbling, she added ruefully. Here we are in the golden age of medicine - making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria - and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow.”
Source: The Pull of the Stars
“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.”
“All rational beings laugh--and maybe only rational beings laugh. And all rational beings benefit from laughing. As a result there has emerged a peculiar human institution--that of the joke, the repeatable performance in words or gestures that is designed as an object of laughter. Now there is a great difficulty in saying exactly what laughter is. It is not just a sound--not even a sound, since it can be silent. Nor is it just a thought, like the thought of some object as incongruous. It is a response to something, which also involves a judgment of that thing. Moreover, it is not an individual peculiarity, like a nervous tic or a sneeze. Laughter is an expression of amusement, and amusement is an outwardly directly, socially pregnant state of mind. Laughter begins as a collective condition, as when children giggle together over some absurdity. And in adulthood amusements remains one of the ways in which human beings enjoy each other's company, become reconciled to their differences, and accept their common lot. Laughter helps us to overcome out isolation and fortifies us against despair.
That does not mean that laughter is subjective in the sense that 'anything goes,' or that it is uncritical of its object. On the contrary, jokes are the object of fierce disputes, and many are dismissed as 'not funny,' 'in bad taste,' 'offensive,' and so on. The habit of laughing at things is not detachable from the habit of judging things to be worthy of laughter. Indeed, amusement, although a spontaneous outflow of social emotion, is also the most frequently practiced form of judgment. To laugh at something is already to judge it.”
Source: Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
“All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.”
“All reactionaries are paper tigers.”
“All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but
the people who are really powerful.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.”
“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
“All reading for pleasure is entertainment.”
“All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”
“All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.”
“All real acts of chivalry are forms of repressed behavior.”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.”
“All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.”
Source: The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future
“All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?”
“All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.”
“All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.”
“All real education is the architecture of the soul.”
“All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.”
Source: The Deptford trilogy
“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”
“All real living is meeting.”
Source: I and Thou
“All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.”
Source: The Philosophy of Freedom
“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”
Source: The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects
“All real progress must be slow.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.”
Source: Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South
“All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“All realities are mental constructs, for all realities are created in the neurons of the brain of human, so either you live in a reality created by some power-mongering, authoritarian, nationalist pig with no vision for a global world, or you rise and start building an actual conscientious world for the countless generations to come.”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“All realities, all dimensions are open to me!”
“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.”
Source: Engleby
“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that disintegration, there was rage. I wanted to break something.”
Source: Engleby
“All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.”
Source: Counting by 7s
“All reality is a game.”
“All reality is mysteriously charged with the invisible presence of God.”
Source: The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays
“All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.”
“All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times”
“All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.”
“All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.”
Source: The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America
“All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.”
Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...