A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.”
“All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions
“All that adrenaline running through him with no outlet - God, what would sex be like with a man who literally vibrated with energy the way he was now?
Explosive. Unforgettable. The exact opposite of how sex with Jerry had been.
Becca realized that, against all common sense, she was dying to find out.”
Source: One Night with a Cowboy
“All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.”
“All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.”
Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”
“All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.”
“All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.”
Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author
“all that blooms
must wither first”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.”
“All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.”
Source: The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic
“All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to create; nay, it is not really created: it is a secretion of the mind, it is a pearl that gathers round some irritant and slowly expresses the very essence of beauty and of desire that has lain long, potential and unexpressed, in the mind of the man who secretes it. God knows that this Unknown Country has been hit off in verse a hundred times...
Milton does it so well in the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost that I defy any man of a sane understanding to read the whole of that book before going to bed and not to wake up next morning as though he had been on a journey.”
Source: On Anything
“All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.”
“All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.”
“All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.”
“All that children can hope for is that the adults who were around them would be kind. All they can do is beg for mercy.”
Source: Lullabies for Little Criminals
“All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.”
“All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“All that comes to an end is a vishaya [subject of pleasure]. That which does not come to an end, is the Soul (our Real Self).”
Source: Anger
“All that could run or leap or swim
Whether in wood, water or cloud,
Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“All that counts in life is intention.”
“All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.”
Source: The Girl You Left Behind
“All that damn therapy you made me go through — and sometimes, Dad, it takes going through hell to reach your heaven.” I looked at the door. “That bad huh?” “What?” “You like her that much?” “No.” I swallowed. “I love her.”
Source: Ruin
“All that day and all that night there sat an awful gladness in my heart,—nay, blame me not if I see the world thus darkly through the Veil,—and my soul whispers ever to me saying, “Not dead, not dead, but escaped; not bond, but free.” No bitter meanness now shall sicken his baby heart till it die a living death, no taunt shall madden his happy boyhood. Fool that I was to think or wish that this little soul should grow choked and deformed within the Veil! I might have known that yonder deep unworldly look that ever and anon floated past his eyes was peering far beyond this narrow Now. In the poise of his little curl-crowned head did there not sit all that wild pride of being which his father had hardly crushed in his own heart? For what, forsooth, shall a Negro want with pride amid the studied humiliations of fifty million fellows? Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow. Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.”
“All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.”
“All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.
'There are only six of them, but they make enough noise for a hundred,' said the Abbess. 'Furthermore, a pig spoke and a goat gave birth to triplets.' And she added with fervor: 'Everything has been like this since your Bishop did us the favor of sending us his poisoned gift.'
She viewed with equal alarm the garden flowering with so much vigor that it seemed contra natura. As they walked across it she pointed out to Delaura that there were flowers of exceptional size and color, some with an unbearable scent. As far as she was concerned, everything ordinary has something supernatural about it.”
“All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series
“all that
destiny in those wild eyes,
and so much passion in that
wild heart”
“all
that destiny
in those wild eyes,
so much passion in
that wild heart,
all the marks on you
and the strength in you
from the mountains within you
that you scaled to get here…
so. many. moons. in you
…it’s beautiful.”
“all
that destiny
in those wild eyes,
so much passion in
that wild heart,
all the marks on you
and the strength in you
from the mountains within you
that you've scaled to get here…
so. many. moons. in you
…it's beautiful.”
“All that doesn’t let me sleep; is my coffee or you.”
Source: You By You
“All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.”
Source: The Smoke Thief
“All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.”
“All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.”
“All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.”
“All that evilness is always just from pain and fear, and that's what I've come to understand. I've come to understand people now. Before, I would blame them for treating me in such a naïve way. I don't hate evil, vicious people anymore.”
“All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“All that existed was the blinding imperative to not think, to leave it all behind. To have it all fade to black in the throes of a truly good orgasm. To thrust and rock and pound until he came long and hard. To reach the pinnacle as fast as he could, to leap off the edge and truly leave all his earth-bound worries behind.
He was a cave man.
He was a Neanderthal.
He was fucking Cro-Magnon.”
Source: Some Girls Lie
“All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.”
Source: Who am I? with comments: Instructions for Self-inquiry
“All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.”
“All that exists is the present moment”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.”
“All that falls is not bad.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.”
“All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“All that foreign oil controlling American soil.”
“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold -
Gilded tombs do worms infold;
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgement old,
Your answer had not been inscrolled -
Fare you well; your suit is cold.”