A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.”
“A evita ridicolul înseamnă a refuza singura şansă de nemurire.”
Source: Nuntă în cer
“A exegese contemplativa não é algo novo. Ela é o tipo de exegese que foi praticada durante a maior parte da vida da igreja. Isso significa que o remédio para a nossa vergonha exegética não é a inovação, mas a recuperação. A recuperação da exegese contemplativa não significa abandonar um único item atual de fato exegético ou visão. Tendo, como temos, a responsabilidade de proclamar e ensinar o texto da Escritura, somos obrigados a saber o máximo possível sobre ele, em todos os aspectos: gramatical, teológico, histórico. O pastor exegeticamente descuidado deveria ser processado, se houvesse uma maneira de fazê-lo, com a mesma diligência e os mesmos fundamentos usados para o cirurgião que utiliza um bisturi contaminado. A exegese contemplativa não ignora ou denigre a exegese técnica — é diligente quanto a ela. Todavia, como Melville dizia aos EUA mais de cem anos atrás, técnica não é cura; informação não é conhecimento. Há algo vivo num corpo, num livro.”
Source: O Pastor segundo Deus: a integridade pastoral vista por vários ângulos
“A existat o altă viață pe care aș fi avut-o, dar o am pe aceasta...”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“A existência aqui é uma arte de amor,
em nosso planeta na pradaria cósmica.
A Nova Terra é uma celebração da vida,
não uma validação de uma rigidez ruinosa.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“A existência de instituições democráticas, eleições, poder judicial independente e imprensa livre não garantem a vitalidade de uma democracia. Muitas vezes, aqueles que chegam ao poder através de eleições tentam minar as instituições e inclinam-se para a autocracia. Sociedades saudáveis só são possíveis quando as instituições democráticas existentes são apoiadas e regularmente verificadas por cidadãos ativos.”
Source: O Lado B da Europa
“A existência existe, a vida vive e a humanidade humaniza.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A experiência de atravessar uma cidade dividida na Europa de 2017 parece tirada de um filme alemão da Guerra Fria, e constitui mais uma vergonha existencial nesta Europa que gosta de se definir como una e livre.”
Source: O Lado B da Europa
“A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.”
“A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?”
“A face can have a thousand wrinkles, but the soul have none.”
“A face can mask pain but the heart, it aches.”
Source: Je pars… mais je reviendrai
“a face contorted into a mask of silent horror. Of absolute, devastating fear so complete no sound can hold it, no breath can expand to fill the void of terror ripped into the soul of a person.”
“A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.”
“A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.”
“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.”
“A face on him as long as a hare's back leg.”
“A Face on the Flag is a tribute to veterans and the friendships they carry through life. Vets young and old will find someone they know in A Face on the Flag.”
Source: A Face on the Flag
“A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.”
“A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.”
“A face stared up at her from the mirror beside her hand. Was that really what she looked like? Was that really what she looked like, all sharp lines and huge silver-grey eyes? Certainly, no one would ever call those features beautiful, Jame thought ruefully; but were they really enough like a boy's to have fooled that old man the alley? Well, maybe with that long black hair out of sight under a cap. It was a very young face and a defiant one, she thought with a odd sense of detachment, but frightened, too. And those extraordinary eyes... what memories lived in them that she could not share? Stranger, where have you been she asked silently. What have you seen? The thin lips locked in their secrets.
"Ahhh!" Jame said in sudden disgust, tossing away the mirror. Fool, to be obsessed with a past she couldn't even remember. But it was all behind her now.”
Source: God Stalk
“A face that has the marks of having lived intensely, that expresses some phase of life, some dominant quality or intellectual power, constitutes for me an interesting face. For this reason the face of an older person, perhaps not beautiful in the strictest sense, is usually more appealing than the face of a younger person who has scarcely been touched by life.”
“A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.”
“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
Source: In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances
“A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.”
“A face without a smile is like a sky without a sun.”
“A face without freckles is a night without stars.”
“A Facebook message will never be able to replace face-to-face interaction.”
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
“A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.”
Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth
“A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.”
“A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.”
“A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.”
Source: Philosphical Discussions
“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”
Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
“A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“A fact is not a truth until you love it.”
Source: Conversations with Shelby Foote
“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.”
Source: Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).
“A fact of life is there is tragedy and hope. There is sadness and joy. To ignore one over the other will destroy a person.”
“A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private ownership, limited government way of life. Many business ventures fail entirely. Who then are the beneficiaries? The masses!”
“A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”
“A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.”
Source: Blue Pastures
“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”
“A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.”
Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
“A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.”
“A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.”
“A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.”