A Quotes
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“An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“An answer is always a form of death.”
“An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.”
“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.”
“An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.”
“An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught.”
“An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.”
Source: The Structure of Appearance
“An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.”
Source: A Kingdom of Dreams
“An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view.
They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant.
In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.”
“An ant has no quarrel with a boot.”
“An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?”
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
“An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.”
“An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.”
“An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.”
“An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New
Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not
new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.”
Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book
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“An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.”
“An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.”
Source: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
“An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.”
“An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.”
Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“An antifeminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of men and women. Feminism is racism against men. So we should all be antifeminists.”
“An antique is anything old with class.”
“An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.”
“An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.”
Source: Palace Walk
“An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.”
“An apathetic society yells about equality on specific days. An accountable human needs no occasion to roar across dismay.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness”
“An aphorism
should be
like a burr:
sting,
...
and leave
a little soreness.”
“An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.”
“An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.”
Source: The Journals: Volume 1: 1949-1965
“An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.”
“An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.”
“An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.”
“An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.”
“An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.”
“An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.”
“An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.”
“An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Let’s make an example. Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.
Carl William Brown”
Source: William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown
“An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.”
“An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.”
“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”
“An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.”
“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”
“An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.”
“An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.”
“An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him.”
Source: Leaving Town Alive
“An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.”
“An apology for America's values is never the right course.”