A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)
“An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.”
“An absence of natural radiation may be as harmful as an abnormally large exposure of radiation.”
“An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.”
“An absolute
patience.
Trees stand
up to their knees in
fog. The fog
slowly flows
uphill.
White
cobwebs, the grass
leaning where deer
have looked for apples.
The woods
from brook to where
the top of the hill looks
over the fog, send up
not one bird.
So absolute, it is
no other than
happiness itself, a breathing
too quiet to hear.”
“An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.”
“An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve them, would make them relational. An absolute is the opposite of relative. So that's easy to understand, however, even though we understand that intellectually, which is very important to do, you don't transform yourself completely, yet.”
“An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.”
Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere . . . and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style.”
“An absolute monarch who believes in free will, isn't that against the rules?" Onilwyn asked.
"No," I said, my face buried against Adair's skin, "it's not. Not against my rules." My voice was beginning to drag with that edge of sleep.
"I think I will like your rules," Onilwyn said and his voice, too, was growing heavy.
"The rules, yes," Rhys said, "but the housework is a bitch.”
Source: Seduced by Moonlight
“An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.”
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.”
“An absolutely different and distinctive character.”
“An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.”
“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”
“An absolutely perfect world would be a deadly boring place. There’s some kind of perfection in slight imperfection.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.”
“An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.”
“An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.”
“An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.”
“An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.”
Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.”
Source: The God of the Machine
“An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production (King Leopold’s Ghost) is better described as historical fiction.”
“An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.”
Source: Principle Centered Leadership
“An abundance of discoveries befogged the heads of my former contemporaries who made atheism a fashion, too. Even then, they were reminiscent of a ladybug on the highway who's charmed by her own motion and crawls a dozen meters. The ladybug seems to think she's learned and grasped everything. She will never find out, though, where the highway begins and where it leads.”
“An abundance of money, alcohol, or power doesn't change you, it simply reveals who you truly are.”
“An abundance of peer-reviewed science is showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet prevents most heart attacks, strokes, and even many kinds of cancer. It gets you to your ideal weight easily and sustainably, reverses Type 2 diabetes, and even fixes erectile dysfunction (because it greatly improves circulation!).”
“An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.”
Source: The Waning of the Middle Ages
“An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.”
Source: The desert year
“An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose.”
“An abundant life is one where we are physically strong, mentally sound, and spiritually aflame. I”
Source: Aligned With Christ
“An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.”
“An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.”
Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.”
“An abuser who does not relinquish his core entitlements will not remain non-abusive. This may be the single most overlooked point regarding abusers and change. The progress that such a man appears to be making is an illusion. If he reserves the right to bully his partner, to protect even one specific priviledge, he is keeping the abuse option open. And if he keeps it open, he will gradually revert to using it more and more until his prior range of controlling behaviors has been restored to it's full glory.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.”
“An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.”
“An abusive relationship typically includes choices in partners who have histories of destructive and narcissistic behavior, and who commonly struggle with their own mental health or addictions, leaving you at risk for continuing a caregiver role. Abusive and trauma-bonded relationships are characterized by intense highs and lows, severe enmeshment, loss of identity, coercive control, and cycles of abuse and manipulation, followed by intermittent calm.”
“An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.”
“An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”
Source: Ripening: Selected Work
“An academic definition of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Porter Stewart-type words that's ultimately definable only ostensively-i.e., we know it when we see it. Ted Bundy wasn't particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victims' various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian. A recent homicide in Boston, in which the deacon of a South Shore church reportedly gave chase to a vehicle that bad cut him off, forced the car off the road, and shot the driver with a highpowered crossbow, was borderline Lynchian. A Rotary luncheon where everybody's got a comb-over and a polyester sport coat and is eating bland Rotarian chicken and exchanging Republican platitudes with heartfelt sincerity and yet all are either amputees or neurologically damaged or both would be more Lynchian than not.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.”
“An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.”
Source: What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition
“An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.”
“An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.”
“An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.”
“An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.”
“An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.”
“An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?”