A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."”
“All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.”
“All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.”
“All the joy the world contains
Has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.”
Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva
“All the joy the world contains
Has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. (8.129)”
Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva
“All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.”
“All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.”
“All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power - in the lawyers.”
Source: Woe to You Lawyers, Form #11.402
“All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.”
“All the kick-ass girls have red hair.”
Source: Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair
“All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.”
“All the kids from daycare are in dreamland.
The froggie has made his last leap.
Hell no you can't go to the bathroom.
You know where you can go?
The f**k to sleep.”
Source: Go the Fuck to Sleep
“All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president—I even dated the homecoming queen.”
“All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.”
“All the kids that I grew up with, in an almost idyllic environment - I've got to tell you, it was so wonderful - they've gone on and they're doctors and Ph.D.'s and everybody has a four-year college degree. None of our parents, I think, had a four-year degree.”
“All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let's play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.”
“All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.”
Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer
“All the king's horses, all the king's men
Couldn't put me together again
'Cause all of my enemies started out friends
Help me hold onto you”
“All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share
I'll help you with the pain
- Rock and Roll Suicide”
Source: David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Off the Record
“All the knowledge and wisdom of the universe is in each and every one of us. You don't have to read any book or belong to any religion. This is universal and available to every way of living. Just close your eyes, quiet the mind and listen.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“All the knowledge is in the connections”
“All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.”
“All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?”
“All the ladies can feel sexy and have fun in my clothing and that makes me feel like I am offering something truly unique to the people who have been gracious enough to show me such love and support over the years.”
“All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.”
Source: Blood of Other Worlds
“All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.”
“All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest”
“All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.”
“All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.”
“All the learn'd are cowards by profession.”
“All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.”
“All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.”
“All the leaves danced in the wind. One of them swayed with the tree.”
Source: Immortal Talks: 1 & 2
“All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.”
“All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.”
“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”
“All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.”
Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
“All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
“All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.”
Source: Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century
“All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.”
Source: The Orphan Master's Son
“All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.”
“All the lies, all the ways we have of trying to make life simple for ourselves by putting people into boxes marked black, white, good, bad, when all of us are victims of our own prejudices.”
“All the light had fallen away from the world, with only the fog illuminated now. Even the stars struggled against the black, managing only the slightest pinpricks of twinkles through a gloom that was both everywhere and nowhere at once. It wasn't the dark of night; it was the tenebrous shadow of bad omens.”
Source: Dreams and Shadows
“All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.”
Source: A Luminous Future
“All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.”
“All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight