A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.”
“An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.”
“An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!”
“An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.”
“An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.”
“An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either inherently violent or death-oriented, with a particular animus against America and Americans.”
“An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.”
“An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.”
“An aggressive nation will spend and sacrifice to win a war; an amicable nation will do the same to prevent a war.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”
“An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.”
“An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.”
Source: The complete works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
“An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.”
“An agnostic does not want to succumb to a religious heritage without proof supported by science. An agnostic is guided more by rational thinking than by emotions and religious sentiments that may or may not exist in him or her. This fight, or dilemma, in every one of us, is a fight between a believer and an atheist. Many believers are, perhaps, agnostics to some extent. They know they don’t know the truth and will never find it, but they still believe (credo quia absurdum). Faith and agnosticism do not necessarily exclude each other, as it is usually perceived, and are compatible.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.”
“An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.”
“An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.”
Source: The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary
“An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“An agonising scream rose silently from his lips as he was encased in a fog of his own air bubbles. Whatever had got him was dragging him deeper into his lair.”
Source: Josh Ruddle and The Guardians of Knowledge: The Lochrihannish Trilogy: Book One
“An agonizing encounter with a closed door can make you despair, but when you let hope be your anchor, you can still find a better door.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.”
“An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”
“An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.”
Source: Persuasion
“An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.”
“An agreement is more powerful than an argument.”
Source: Quantraz
“An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.”
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).”
“An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation”
“An aha experienced decades ago by one of us is relevant to this point. Halfway through a grueling clinical internship, CP [Christopher Peterson] complained to his supervisor, “No one [meaning the patients] ever says thank you for anything I try to do.” The response from the experienced psychiatrist stopped CP mid-whine: “If they [the patients] could say thank you, how many of them do you think would be in a psychiatric hospital?”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“An AI machine can play 10,000 video games simultaneously, but that doesn't mean it has reached the mosquito level of intelligence. Unless a machine develops some sense of self-awareness and a sense of well-being for self and others, it is far away from human-level intelligence.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.”
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Source: The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.”
Source: The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)
“An aim missed is always an aim attained. Let your hearts be Disappointment-proof”
“An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.”
“An aimless joy is a pure joy”
“An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.”
“An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts
“An air of malaise had spread through Café Society and quite acutely in her coterie, friends impatient to find their way to the lightness, their place in the sun. The Great Depression cast shadows on the city. The roar of the Twenties had quieted to a soulful cry of the blues.”
Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
“An aircraft cabin that is filled with wireless radio frequency (RF) devices that are charging is comparable to filling an aircraft with hundreds of known biologically toxic smart meters.”
“An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.”
“An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.”
“An airline gate agent confronted me and told me that I had to delete my video recordings I had made in the gate area or I would not be allowed to board the flight. I opted to keep my video recordings and they canceled my airline ticket. The videos I made became popular on social media and the advertising revenue more than paid for my replacement airline ticket on a much nicer airline!”
“An airplane crossed the sky, and she imagined its interior-people packed in rows like eggs in a carton, the chemical smell of the toilets, pretzels in foil pouches, cans hiss-popping open, black oval of night sky embedded in the rattling walls. How strange that something so drab, so confined, so stifling with sour exhalations and the fumes of indifferent machinery might be mistaken for a star.”
Source: Seating Arrangements
“An airplane does not need a pilot, a master or God.”
“An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.”
“An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.”
Source: Nothing By Chance
“An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!”