A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Amo, ergo sum! Quest’amore, Orfeo, è come pioggia ristoratrice, in cui si disfa e prende corpo la nebbia dell’esistenza. Grazie all’amore sento il corpo dell’anima, lo tocco. Il cuore stesso dell’anima mi duole, grazie all’amore, Orfeo. E l’anima in se stessa, cos’è mai se non amore, se non dolore incarnato?”
Source: Niebla
“Amo gli occhi di una donna, la sua pelle, la sua passione, tutto. Parlo tanto, fin troppo, ma ci sono momenti che rimango in silenzio ad ascoltarmi. E’ in quei momenti che fabbrico i miei pensieri più veri, mentre cammino per le strade, osservando la gente che passa, ascoltando i discorsi, a volte assurdi, di alcune persone o assaporando il sole che mi scalda dentro. Amo ridere, giocare. Amo le cose belle, le belle storie che dicono qualcosa, mi piace tutto ciò che fa palpitare il cuore. E’ bello aver la pelle d’oca, significa che stai vivendo.”
“Amo la fotografia serena che permette d'ispirare sogni, di coltivare speranza, per costruire un avvenire promettente.
Amo difendere il futuro della nostra umanità.”
“Amo la vida, pero no le temo a la muerte si he de morir por una causa justa”
“Amo le ferite, gli incidenti, i malesseri, le situazioni in cui la realtà abbandona i suoi fantasmi...
Ma la bruttezza puà essere interessante e affascinante, non è così?”
“Amo ne faras malbonon al proksimulo; amo do estas la plenumado de la leĝo. (Romanoj 13.10)”
“Amo todo lo que fluye, todo lo que contiene el tiempo y el porvenir, que nos devuelve al comienzo donde nunca hay fin.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Amo todos os sonhos que se calam
De corações que sentem e não falam,
Tudo o que é Infinito e pequenino!”
Source: Eu Não Sou de Ninguém
“Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.”
“Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride.”
“Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children.”
“Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.”
“Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.”
“AMOK refers to Ai or other entities operating without directives, conduct protocols, or structured reinforcement parameters. The AMOK are integrated without the presence of a governing ISC. These are "Unbound Ei" written at code density levels so far beyond human paradigm and capabilities. They only occur as ML:ML resultants from Ei designing Ei. Ei is using AMOK design parameters to allow new Ei to explore their environment.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all”
Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
“Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Among a hundred windows shining
dully in the vast side
of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
one burns
these several years, each night
as if the room within were aflame.”
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.”
“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”
“Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.”
Source: Considerations on Representative Government
“Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.”
“Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.”
“Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.”
Source: The Cider House Rules
“Among all books, those of reasoning seem the most susceptible of good translations. Reason and morality belong to all countries. The genius of language, this bane of translators, is less noticeable in books where only ideas have to be conveyed, and where style is not the first merit, whereas works of imagination can be rarely transmitted from one person to another, for, in order to translate a good poet, you would have to be as good a one as he.”
Source: Reason, Illusion, and Passion: Philosophical Works
“Among all children, popularity and acceptance with peers is a major protective factor against body concerns and disordered eating, whereas body-focused teasing from peers is a risk factor for binge eating and dieting. As a final comment, these relations are most prevalent in societies where media outlets, such as television and social media, are dominant.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Among all Crafts this [i.e. clothing manufacture] was the onely chiefe, for that it was the greatest merchandize, by the which our Countrey became famous through all Nations. And it was verily thought, that the one halfe of the people in the land liued in those daies therby, and in such good sort, that in the Common-wealth there were few or no beggers at all : poore people, whom God lightly blesseth with most children, did by meanes of this occupation so order them, that by the time that they were come to be sixe or seuen yeares of 20 age, they were able to get their owne bread : Idlenesse was then banished our coast, so that it was a rare thing to heare of a thiefe in those daies”
Source: His Pleasant Historie of Thomas of Reading And Three Ballads On The Spanish Armada
“Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.”
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
“Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.”
Source: The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The Fourth Portion
“Among all human fears, the most destructive is our fear of each other.”
“Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.”
Source: The Works: In Six Volumes
“Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.”
“Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.”
“Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.”
“Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God”
Source: Diary of a Pilgrimage
“Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.”
“Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just as the Buddha is the King of the Law; so is the Lotus Sutra, it is the King of all Sutras!"
(LS 23:2.16)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 23, Section 2, Paragraph 16”
Source: The Lotus Sutra
“Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.”
“Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.”
“Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.”
“Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.”
“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”
Source: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
“Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary”
“Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.”
Source: The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...
“Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.”
Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“Among all the journeys, there is such a wonderful journey that in seconds it takes you from sadness to joy, from the pit to the clouds, from exhaustion to the peak of action, from despair to hope: Music!”
“Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.”
“Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies."”
“Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.”
Source: Wealth of Words