A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.”
Source: Memoires of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq
“A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.”
Source: Lanterns & Lances
“A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.”
“A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body when they are not taken, and antidotes are received against them.”
“A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity”
Source: Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion
“A false sense of security is the only kind there is.”
“A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.”
Source: The Great Ship of Knowledge, Vol. 1: Learning Earth's Deathly History
“A false tale often betrays itself.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“A false tongue is a lethal weapon.”
“A false vision was better than none.”
“A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.”
“A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.”
“A falta de experiência dos cérebros jovens é muita vez compensada pelo idealismo. Nada lhes parece impossível.”
“A falta de interesse pelo conhecimento gera ignorância, o que vemos berrante no cristianismo. Se trouxesse um cristão congelado da época de Jesus, como naqueles filmes da Sessão da Tarde, ele seria uma pessoa bem atualizada no que tange Deus, cristianismo, mas seria um completo retardado em tudo. Desde finanças, políticas e ciência básica, mas seria um homem de Deus, e poderia sem problemas concorrer ao cargo de presidente do país, com chances de ganhar somente berrando “Fiquem com Deus”, e soltar ocasionalmente passagens da bíblia.”
Source: Seria a Bíblia um livro científico?: Por que a Bíblia Sagrada não deve ser levada a sério e como argumentar contra ela (Estudos Bíblicos para ateus 2)
“A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not.
What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.”
Source: Magic Lessons
“A familiar itch was creeping in. That aching towards something wild— when the days get longer and a walk through the city becomes entirely pleasant from morning to night, when you want to run drunk down an empty street in sneakers and fling all responsibility to the wayside.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.”
Source: The Rebecca notebook and other memories
“A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt”
“A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.”
“A familiar sensation sparks inside me, the one I had a few years ago, the one that hurts because it’s dangerous and overwhelming. Knowing how it is to truly love someone is torturous. You try to bury that feeling. So you become lonely, deprived, and when you sense anything remotely like it, the emotion comes back to haunt you. It’s one sick fucking game.”
Source: Give It Back
“A familiarity had been activated in a reoccurring
theme that had been ignited from a recognizable old pattern of self distancing behavior. The tone of Laura’s voice and the poise of her body language seemed to shrug at the expectations of Ed’s reconciliatory efforts. It felt to Ed as though their relationship was right back to the same rugged place that it had been at before their vacation; right back to a recondite square one. It seemed like any connecting that had been accomplished had all unraveled into a recoiled heap of uncertainty.”
Source: Strong Love Church
“A familiarity with principles of strategic planning, integrated marketing and communications are essential if you desire to have a successful career path in branding or social media marketing.”
“A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale
“A family, a comfortable home, a happy Christmas day together. Everybody dreams of this, but just a few create in their minds the abundance that is outside.”
“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”
Source: The Bone People: A Novel
“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”
“A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.”
“A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this IS grace.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.”
“A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.”
“A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.”
Source: Antsy Does Time
“A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.”
“A family is a mystery.”
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning, but it's worth every moment.”
Source: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.”
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
Source: Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World
“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.”
“A family is a social system and if that system is dysfunctional, the ramifications for the children growing up within it are grave. In what is known as generational drug addiction, the adult children of drug addicts and alcoholics are quietly suffering all over the world. By the time the children have grown up, dysfunction has been deeply ingrained in mind, body and brain.”
Source: Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
“A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.”
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
“A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton
“A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.”
“A family is everybody all together.”
“A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.”
Source: Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home
“A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.”
Source: The Real Werewives of Vampire County
“A family is not best seen as a sequence of generations that just leaves the oldest ones behind but, rather, as an Amish quilt in which each of us is represented by a square, whether we happen to be alive or not, and no one ever loses his or her place in the quilt, but the whole quilt just keeps getting bigger and more beautiful over time.”
“A family is nothing if not the fortress or sanctuary of peace against all the troubles in the outside world.”
“A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”
Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.”
“A family, it seemed, was as much a web of shared myths as of shared DNA.”
Source: Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime