A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago”
Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King
“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“All we have to do is ask and believe that God will work on our behalf and give us what we need to overcome and rise above the adversities and stress that we are facing.”
Source: Stressed-Less Living
“All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”
“All we have to do is idly sit
indoors
With smooth roses powdered
on our cheeks,
Our bodies burning naked
through the fold
Of shining Amorgos' silk
and meet the men
With our dear Venus-plats
plucked trim and neat.
Their stirring love will rise
up furiously,
They'll beg our arms to
open. That's our time!
We'll disregard their knocking
beat them off
And they will soon be rabid
for a Peace
I'm sure of it.”
Source: Lysistrata
“All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.”
“All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.”
Source: Free thyself
“All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.”
“All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.”
“All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.”
“All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning”
“All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.”
“All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.”
“All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.”
Source: The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin
“All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.”
“All we have, all we are, are clichés.”
“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”
“All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”
“All we knew of ourselves is that, as mixed bodies, we belonged nowhere and to nothing”
Source: The Breaks: An Essay
“All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.”
“All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.”
“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.”
“All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.”
“All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it has some density and body after all, since in reality only God is truly immaterial and incorporeal.”
“All we know is that everything ends. Our collective death denial inspires us to behave like we can live forever. But we don't have forever to create the life we want.”
Source: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
“All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.”
“All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection.”
“All we know is what we're told.”
“All we know is what were told.”
“All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to come. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know. For good-by.”
Source: The Chestry Oak
“All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.”
Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.”
“All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.”
“All we know so far is what doesn't work.”
“All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.”
“All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.”
Source: Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976
“All we need is good will, and we have to start working in a way that considers each other's interests [with U.S]. In my view, this is a mandatory condition.”
“All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.”
“All we need is to take an climate action now! Environment destruction of our common home increases every day. We need a better rain distribution on Earth, ecological awareness of minners, farmers and industry for the sustainable exploration of our natural resources.”
“All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.”
“All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.”
“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”
“All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!”
“All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
“All we need to worry about is reining our own horse, knowing others will be responsible if they find themselves waist-high in cockleburs. You can’t make people do the right thing. Sometimes, they need to get caught up in the cockleburs to learn their lessons.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.”
“All we’re trying to do here is to make our own little piece of heaven.”
Source: Essex Poison
“All we’re trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen.”
“All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.”