A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains”
Source: The Complete Works of J. M. Synge
“All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.”
Source: My Lyrical Life: Poems Old and New
“All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.”
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
Source: Matilda
“All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!”
Source: The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
“All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.”
“All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.”
“All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.”
“All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”
Source: American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece
“All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.”
“All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.”
“All the really pretty girls get pregnant.”
“All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.”
“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”
“All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.”
“All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.”
“All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.”
Source: Never Always Sometimes
“All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.”
“All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.”
“All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.”
“All the rejection that I've been through only made me stronger, and it's part of being an entrepreneur. You kind of have to take the kid gloves off and let them feel it because it's not going to be the first time that someone's going to say "no" or close a door in your face. You're going to have to figure out how to burst through it.”
“All the religions are super funny to me.”
“All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.”
“All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.”
“All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.”
Source: THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.”
“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.”
“All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.”
“All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.”
Source: Sixty Days and Counting
“All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.”
“All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“All the research I had read on sleeping in moonlight said I would turn into a lunatic, so it was surprising when it resulted in feeling healthier!”
“All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.”
“All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment”
“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.”
“All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!”
“All the resources we need are in the mind.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.”
“All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.”
“All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!”
Source: Mao Zedong Texte: Bd. 1959-1960
“All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.”
Source: Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe
“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”
“All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.”
“All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.”
“All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.”
“All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.”
“All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.”
Source: Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III