A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An airport is a place where you go through hell to reach your alleged paradise.”
“An airport is a potent place, a point of reunions and departures. For the traveler, it's a crossroads at the moment of decision, a flashpoint that separates intention from retreat.”
Source: To Swim Beneath the Earth
“An Airstream is a lot like a first love: you are lured by her charm, seduced by her beauty, and once bitten, you are forever chasing after her mystique.”
“An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.(your feet will bring you to where your heart is.)”
“An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.”
“An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.”
“An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.”
“An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from an artist I liked or trusted or who excited me. Maybe one of the songs is really poppy and you listen to it on the radio as a hit single and then more of the world is about to find out about this artist by buying the record.”
“An album is a garden, not for show
Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
“An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.”
“An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.”
“An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!”
“An album takes at least a year or 8 months and I think that's too long for your fans to wait to hear you again.”
“An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.”
“An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.”
“An alcoholic is dependent on alcohol. Alcohol is dependent on the bottle.”
“An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.”
“An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.”
Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“An alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, step by powerful step, along the shore to find the sun. And everything that ever said otherwise--all those years of school, and the plays and moving pictures that promise you can be someone else, something more--they were all lies.”
Source: Wildwing
“An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.”
“An algiz stone I hastily borrowed without asking from Hearthstone’s rune bag. (If he didn’t want me to take it, then why did he leave his room unlocked?)”
Source: Mission Road
“An algorithm can arrive at optimization, but only a human being - an artist, a thinker, a mathematician, an entrepreneur, a politician - only someone with a sense of perspective can interpret the meaning of the destination. Masters spend their entire lives in pursuit of this interpretation. This is how they make sense of the world.”
Source: Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm
“An algorithm can't lie. It can only operate within the parameters you gave it. And we built those parameters on a system that was already broken.”
Source: THE AUGUST BICYCLE: A Medical Science Fiction Novel
“An algorithm is like a recipe.”
“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
Source: The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms
“An algorithm that expedites care to a stroke patient in a chaotic emergency room (ER) has a good chance of adoption. An algorithm that reads a routine scan and provides some quantification of what the physicians can already estimate won’t be in as much demand. There are good reasons for algorithms to parse patient records to look for signs of rare diseases, but there are fewer good reasons for using them to evaluate clinical symptoms. It’s cool that AI tools can make diagnoses from scratch, but for most clinical encounters doctors are already pretty good at it.”
Source: AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
“An alibi is only as good as its details.”
Source: Paladine
“An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.”
“An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again.”
Source: Yesterday's Kin
“An alien principle took charge when men began administering nature. When priestesses whose moon-based calendar foretold the cycles with minute precision gave way to priests in women’s robes who reckoned by the sun, & left each year awry with one fourth of a useless day.”
Source: The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy
“An alignment crisis happens when we remain chronically misaligned with our purpose.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.”
“An all-powerful ruler of the Universe would not endorse a dormant mind.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.”
“An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.”
“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.”
“An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.”
“An allem Unfug, der passiert, sind nicht etwa nur die schuld, die ihn tun, sondern auch die, die ihn nicht verhindern.”
Source: Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
“An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.”
“An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more
“An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.”
“An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.”
“An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.”
Source: CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions
“An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.
(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)”
Source: Moment of Truth
“An ally need not own the land he helps.”
Source: Euripides
“An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.”