A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.”
Source: Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect
“An Infant Maestro by Stewart Stafford
Baby as a bag of cats,
Grunting like an Everest climber,
Then screaming as if tortured,
Followed by innocent, cooing smiles.
Drinking milk from a rocket bottle,
Tiny hands move with satisfaction,
Conducting an invisible orchestra,
Sighing in rhythm to his gulps.
Bored stares at the ceiling,
As Baby Mama changes him,
Then eye-rolling slumber,
Floating away in the bassinet.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.”
“An infantryman’s job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc’s job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, “Not today.”
“An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.”
“An infatuation that runs deep enough can render somebody useless, and make everyone around them miserable. I am not sure you realized that with you there to think about, she wasn’t thinking about much of anything else.”
Source: Into the West
“An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.”
Source: Princeps' Fury
“An inferiority complex is acquired in childhood”
“An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.”
“An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.”
“An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.”
“An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.”
Source: Some Mistakes of Moses
“An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.”
“An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book
“An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.”
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals”
“An infinitesimal fraction of the sun’s energy is responsible for all the abundance of our planet. A good thing we can’t see the torrent of waste, the enormity of what’s lost. Imagine pouring a jug of milk down the drain. The droplets of leftover milk in the sink? That’s what we live off.”
Source: Singer Distance
“An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.”
Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9
“An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.”
Source: Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
Source: madame bovary
“An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.”
“An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.”
“An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.”
“An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy
“An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.”
“An Inflicted Introduction by Stewart Stafford
A sour smile across thin lips,
While cat-and-mouse eyes,
Stared, unblinking, at my face,
Forked tongue gauged reaction.
Acid wafting from that mouth,
Light as flecks of warm butter,
But leaving a bitter aftertaste,
Tricking nobody within earshot.
Their hooded gaze scorched,
As infants on their playthings,
Bloated from odious overspill,
I withdrew from their presence.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.”
Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot
“An influx of new research explores how our brains do continue to change and how our very thoughts impact those changes. This natural tendency of our brains to rewire is called neuroplasticity, which can be influenced by both external and internal factors.”
Source: Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success
“An information bureau of the human condition, Theodor Adorno called Kafka.”
“An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].”
“An informed citizen is the only true repository of the public will”
“An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.”
“An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.”
“An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.”
Source: Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing
“An informed patriotism is what we want.”
“An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going to be political equals, they to have to have the information and tools so they can actually be participants. That's liberal democracy 101.”
“An infusion of storytelling lifeblood of into the vein of time provides a means to stitch a common thread of conjoined understanding through the collective consciousness of our generation. The communal sheaves of internal dialogue handed-down through the ages trace a seamless patchwork of wisdom, weaving the broadcloth of perception with strands of evocative fabric gleaned from examining the textile breach of humankind’s fitful existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”
“An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.”
Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain
“An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.”
“An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.”
Source: One good road is enough: essays
“An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.”