A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“An evening dream--everything must have been an illusion;
I cannot explain clearly even one part of what I saw.
Yet in the dream it seemed as if the truth were in front of my eyes.
This morning, awake, is it not the same dream?”
Source: One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan
“An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.”
“An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.”
“An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.”
Source: The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
“An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.”
“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”
“An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.”
“An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.”
Source: Summer by the Sea
“An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).”
“An event is just an event. How you respond to the event determines its outcome in your life.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.”
“An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.”
“An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.”
Source: The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”
Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot
“An event only becomes 'traumatizing' at a specific point: when we are personally affected by it—whether in actuality or perception.”
Source: Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“An event shouldn't be just an experiential thing, it should be an emotional thing.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An event without an Usher is like a Christmas without Santa.”
Source: The Event Usher’s Handbook
“An ever growing part of our major institutions’ functions is the cultivation and maintenance of three sets of illusions which turn the citizen into a client to be saved by experts...The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services. This illusion is due to an educated blindness to the worth of use-values in the total economy. In none of the economic models serving as national guidelines is there a variable to account for non-marketable use-values any more than there is a variable for nature's perennial contribution.”
Source: The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
“An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.”
Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle
“An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.”
“AN EVIDENCE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN A WITNESS”
“An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet.”
Source: A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life
“An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War
“An evil brute grows strong and now is on the verge of crossing over from the island to the world you know. His name is Hubal, and his strength grows as your world’s lightness folds.”
Source: The Rise of Shams
“An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil,
because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“An evil chill seemed to rise up around her shoulders, spread to her back, and began to slither down her spine, lower and lower. Her T-shirt was soaked with cold sweat. Her physical responses were too strong for it to be just her imagination.
.... Didn't someone say your body is more honest than your mind?”
Source: Ring
“An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.”
“An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.”
Source: Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha
“An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.”
“An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.”
“An evil discovered is half healed.”
“An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.”
“An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann
“An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“An evil gain equals a loss.”
“An evil, hungry sword. This was going to be…interesting.”
Source: Pirate's Promise
“An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“An evil life is a kind of death.”
“An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.”
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes”
“An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all.”
Source: The Rise of Sivagami
“An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.”
“An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.”
“An evil person lurks inside all of us, and only
if we recognize that fact can we hope to
tame them [sic].”
“An evil plan does mischief to the planner.”
“An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers.”
Source: Fate's Edge
“An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“An evil word it is/ This Love.”