A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
“All shall love me and despair.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“All shall share alike, the breath of life, living.”
“All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.”
Source: The Voice of the Heart
“All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.”
“All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it”
Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes
“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory,
Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory,
Because you don’t know what is there in the future,
And all you need is a vision to make a perfect picture.
I feel that I have known you for a century,
And whatever she calls is a memory.”
Source: The Papery Onions
“All she could recall later, in the solicitous light of dawn, was that she had touched a nightmare, and that the nightmare had somehow reached out to touch her in return.”
Source: The Resurrectionists
“All she could see in Raymond's eyes was sorrow and an unspoken longing that reminded her of her own pain.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“All she could see was that she'd already had her first failure.
A second chance, according to her aunt.
She was wrong.
There were no second chances, not for her. Not after the reason it had all gone wrong the first time was because of her. Because she was too much of a coward to act.
She was here because of the cursed ring. Her curse.
This was no second chance.
It was a punishment.”
“All she could think about was sex. Everything she looked at seemed erotic: the fruit on the vine, the flowers unfolding to the bees, event the shape of the wine bottles at dinner the night before was suggestive of the curve of a body.”
Source: Blush
“All she could think about was the beautiful cake she had decorated, and she began envisioning a new design she would create next time. She could see it vividly before her- whipped cream rosettes, a few raspberry marzipans, maybe even a few petals from actual flowers.”
Source: Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop
“All she could think of as she turned the key was, they were real. Jabberwockys and Bandersnatches and all the fucking Snarks. Boojums for sure. Maybe she had entered the Twilight Zone, but this shit was as real as real gets.”
Source: Loop
“All she could think was what an effective...tool it looked. Her father always said you needed the right tool for the job and Dean sure knew how to bring it.”
Source: The Colonel's Daughter
“All she'd found was that women spent a great deal of time saying they were please when they were not, similing when they were not happy, and pretending their anger and frustation did not exist”
Source: The Mermaid
“All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.”
“All she had to do was die, and with death would come the end of the pain, but they would have to live with the memory of it. Of her.”
Source: For Whom the Belle Tolls
“All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.”
“All she knew was that something was going wrong in her relationship, in parallel to something good and intriguing happening elsewhere and, try as she might, she felt powerless to stop either one.”
Source: The Love of a Lifetime
“All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all.”
Source: Hera
“All she need is someone, To buy her all her fun, She looks so happy in that smile, She is content all the while, But she knows deep within her heart, It won’t last her all the mile…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“All she needs in this life is a chance at a better life, and to get that she works, she sacrifices, she tells her morals to shut their damn mouth, or turn the other way when shame starts poking its nose around.”
Source: The Concrete
“All she really wanted to do was sleep, but it seemed her awareness level was operating at peak efficiency, for some reason.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he said, "Love you," and she had never said it back or even taken the trouble to name him - and manage somehow to fly away on wings that had not soared for six years.”
“All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.”
Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature
“All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.”
“All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.”
Source: Brother Odd
“All she wanted was sax.”
“All she wanted was someone to know her heart the way sky does.”
“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“All she wanted was to sit down and relax with a nice afternoon snack and a good book.”
Source: Feral
“All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.”
Source: Warriors: Omen of the Stars #1: The Fourth Apprentice
“All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.”
“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Writings
“All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing a hankering for death; our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a hankering for voluptuous immobility, that is, for death again; our meditative air is that of a void wanting to scrutinize the enigmas of nirvana.”
Source: The Leopard
“All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.”
“All sides of border are equally ours.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“All sight is blind-sight that makes the being blind of its own strength.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.”
“All significant action must be followed by inaction.”
Source: In Limbo
“All significant battles are fought within self.”
“All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.”
“All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.”
Source: Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“All significant relationships have a price. It’s not that relationships are a sacrifice. After all, who wants a life of sacrifice? It is more a matter of priorities. We can’t do everything in life and we can’t be with everyone in life. In choosing what we will do and with whom, we automatically make priorities. If something is at the top of our list then other things have to come second or third or last.”
Source: Love, Devotion, and Longing
“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.”
“All signs and tokens Are Orpheus, if they sing. He winds through everything.”
Source: Sonnets to Orpheus
“All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.”