A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.”
“All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.”
“All sports are games of inches.”
“All sports are time control demonstrations.”
“All sports for all people.”
“All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.”
“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.”
“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.”
“All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.”
“All stakeholders should benefit from the capital we allocate in our portfolio.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“All stakeholders should benefit from the capital we allocate in our portfolio, on a net value add basis.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.”
“All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.”
“All statistics have outliers.”
Source: Terrorscape
“All statistics have outliers. Money management, therefore, is key to the process of good trading.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: How to cultivate equanimity in the face of market uncertainty
“All statutes to the contrary are revoked.”
“All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.”
Source: The Shipping News
“All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.”
“All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!”
“All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.”
Source: Stories that could be true: new and collected poems
“All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. - La dernière est derrière nous.)
(The Bird and its Sun / L’Oiseau et son Soleil)”
Source: Fables 1
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
All of them?
Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”
“All stories are lessons.
Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don't trust people who want to share their food with you; don't eat their shiny red apples, nor their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don't break a promise.
Be bold, be bold, but not too bold.”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.”
“all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.”
“All stories are love stories.”
Source: Eureka Street
“All stories are love stories, and there are numerous kinds of love, from the love of a mother holding her child for the first time to the love of blood that drives a psychopath, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance. Let the saner people do that.”
“All stories are love stories in the making.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
“All stories are true.”
“All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
Source: Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon
“All stories are weapons, and children’s stories are doubly so, for children have not yet learned how to be careful.”
Source: Juice Like Wounds
“All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.”
“All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.”
Source: Dreams of the Compass Rose
“All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.”
“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.”
“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”
“All stories must end Kairos - especially our.”
Source: Mercurio
“All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.”
“All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.”
Source: The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
“All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.”
“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon