A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An Inhuman, In Human.”
“An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives.”
“An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go.”
“An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.”
“An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.”
“An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.”
Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth
“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793
“An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.”
Source: The last lecture
“An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.”
“An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth--a fact that is recognized by the law of libel. Among other common lies we have the silent lie – the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth.”
“An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
“An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.”
“An injury may prove a blessing.”
“An injury to one is an injury to all.”
“An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.”
“An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“An injustice to one is a threat made to all”
“An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.”
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.”
“An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night—wind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (“bleak,” Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger—the one who speaks to nobody—warming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be a fire—crackling and blazing, laid with an impossible size log and roaring its great heart out up the chimney. And there should be some sort of cauldron, Kate felt, somewhere about—and, perhaps, a couple of mastiffs thrown in for good measure.”
Source: The Borrowers Afield
“An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.”
“An inner cancer of the soul, wetiko covertly influences our perceptions so as to act itself out through us while simultaneously hiding itself from being seen. Wetiko bewitches our consciousness so that we become blind to the underlying, assumed viewpoint through which we perceive, conjure up, and give meaning to our experience of both the world and ourselves. This psychic virus can be thought of as the bug in “the system” that informs and animates the madness that is playing out in our lives, both individually and collectively, on the world stage.”
Source: Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World
“An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.”
Source: The landscapes within
“An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation”
Source: The Buddha and the Borderline
“An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.”
Source: The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
“An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.”
Source: Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting
“An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.”
“An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“An inner voice might be a patient of a mental hospital.”
“An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005”
“An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!”
“An innocent breath of life comes from the deep of all darkness! It just takes a moment, an instant and right after, everything becomes absolutely corrupted! The existence, the thought! I’ve lived in nothingness for eternities, I know, I have felt it, it was engraved in my soul. Although I cannot give faith and witness… I know; I’ve been in nothingness and from the nothingness I have returned..."
An excerpt from the book: The Master Of Realities: The Labyrinth Of The Dead Souls”
Source: The Master of the Realities
“An innocent bureaucratic snafu.”
“An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.”
“An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.”
“An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.”
“An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.”
“An innocent smile skates closer with her movement, walking fingers up my stomach to halt over my heart, “Mate, you.” She nods, as if declaring this is easy and absolute.”
Source: Aisyx
“An innocent youth wrote recently that he is convinced I am the greatest writer in the world (from New Zealand). A touching letter – so simple & unaffected. Another young man wrote, only yesterday, that I am to him what Hardy must have been to me. Such tributes are worth having, aren't they, even if I don't deserve them.”
Source: Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage
“An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.”
“An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.”
“An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.”
“An innovative spirit, long a core characteristic of American medicine, is as strong or perhaps even stronger as ever.”
“An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.”
“An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.”
Source: City of Saints and Madmen
“An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits among the committed clinicians who have preserved the passion for medicine.”
“An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which Smith published in 1776, is the most important book ever written about capitalism and its moral ramifications. Though The Wealth of Nations is in good part about commerce, it was not written for businessmen or merchants. A book focused on the analysis of market processes motivated by self-interest, it was written by one of the most admired philosophers of the Enlightenment, a former professor of logic, rhetoric, jurisprudence, and moral philosophy, in order to influence politicians and rouse them to pursue the common good.”
Source: The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
“An insane idea begged to recognition in my head, one that I hardly dared to consider.”
Source: Burying the Shadow