A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All that mattered was that Boyd was there. He was there for Sin, and when Sin opened his eyes to look at Boyd once more, Sin ignored all the self-doubt and paranoia. Because at that moment he somehow knew that Boyd always would be.”
Source: Afterimage
“All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle I’d just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that I’d also signed myself up for disaster, but I didn’t care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.”
Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
“All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.”
“All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.”
“All that matters is having single-minded purpose ( ichinen), in the here and now. Life is an ongoing succession of ‘one will’ at a time, each and every moment. A man who realizes this truth need not hurry to do, or seek, anything else anymore. Just live in the present with single-minded purpose. People forget this important truth, and keep seeking other things to accomplish.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“All that matters is how you see yourself.”
“All that matters is love and work.”
“All that matters is me and this sweet boy who thinks I’m beautiful.”
Source: Naked
“All that matters is that I stay healthy.”
“All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.”
“All that matters is that you find a way to put the puck in the net. It doesn't matter how. I learned that from Mario.”
“All that matters is that you keep going no matter what”
“All that matters is that your perception of reality is what you truly desire.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.”
“All that matters is the way he’s angling my face up to his, thumb and forefinger still on my jaw and my chin. It makes me think of someone taking a drink, only the drink in question is my lips. He wants to taste me there, and oh, that’s exactly what it feels like.
He doesn’t press his mouth to mine, too hard and too frantic. He just dips in, getting a little of me on his lips before going back for something deeper and sweeter. It’s so much sweeter I could cry. I feel like I’ve been waiting for this for a thousand years, and, if his reaction is anything to go by, so has he.”
Source: Run to You
“All that matters is to help the team.”
“All that matters" is "what that matters".”
“All that matters is what we do for each other.”
“All that matters is what you do next.”
“All that matters is when you show your fans love it's like you're one of them.”
“All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?”
“All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.”
“All that matters on the stage is good art.”
“All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be digging into characters for at least a month. Who they are. What they are like. Outside of the story.”
“All that matters to me is the man in front of me right now. (Tory) I’m not a man, Soteria. (Acheron) I know. But if you think your godhood excuses you from putting the toilet seat down, think again. (Tory)”
Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“All that matters to me now is my family.”
“All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!”
“All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.”
Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva
“All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.”
“All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.”
“All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.”
“All that means to me is that people who have a vision of a better world have a responsibility to open their eyes, to pay attention, to act on what the moment demands, and to be humble about that action.”
“All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.”
“All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights.”
“All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.”
Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.”
“All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the return journey, thump him on the head, and leave him in exactly the place he had started from. And all the time it got nearer and nearer to the morning.”
Source: About a Boy
“All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.”
“All that occurs within the walls of the temple is uplifting and enobling.”
“All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.”
Source: The Society of the Spectacle
“All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
“All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.”
Source: The Mermaid Chair
“All that part of Creation that lies within our observation is liable to change... If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading their influence, until the whole globe is subjected to their ways...
England immediately upon this began to increase (the particular and minute cause of which I am not historian enough to trace) in power and magnificence, and is now the greatest nation upon the globe.
Soon after the Reformation a few people came over into the new world for conscience sake. Perhaps this (apparently) trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me. For if we can remove the turbulent Gallics, our people, according to the exactest computations, will in another century, become more numerous than England itself. Should this be the case, since we have (I may say) all the naval stores of the nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain the mastery of the seas, and then the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves is to disunite us... Keep us in distinct colonies...
Be not surprised that I am turned politician. The whole town is immersed in politics.”
“All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.”
“All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.”