A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An obligation is rarely done out of joy. But, joy is the obligation of the soul.”
Source: Pearls of Light: passion, poetry & positive affirmations
“An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.”
“An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.”
Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!”
“An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.”
“An obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face.”
Source: Homestuck Book One
“An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars, but that is wrong. It is ignorance. The name means, literally speaking, 'one who cannot be yoked,' and it is really every one of us who takes control of our own destiny while others blow in the wind. We may be punished for it, but we would never do it another way. We are all Belials.”
Source: The Last Bookaneer
“An obscure quote might have appealed to her, but Hildy would never get a tattoo. She was afraid of needles and, more importantly, permanence. She liked to think she was still at the pupa stage of existence.”
“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.”
Source: Home Education
“An observant friend will recognize the signs of the rise of grief: eyes that easily well with tears, a smile that is difficult to sustain, a tendency to withdraw. And ultimately, perhaps we each need to create our own symbol of grieving — to wear our version of black, or maybe to color with black crayons for a while.”
Source: Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing
“An observation that people who live permanently in an adoptive country tend to progressively generalize the bad and particularize the good, that is, attribute the bad traits in people they encounter to the national trait of the natives, and the good things to the individual.
This holds equally well for French people living in the U.S. as it does for Americans living in France.”
“An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories
“An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.”
“An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.”
“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.”
Source: Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
“An obsession is such a strength and efficacy, which mostly reaches its target.”
“An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.”
“An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is.”
“An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became quite enamored of the architecture there. It began there. I travel a lot or my work, so now, wherever I go, I wasn't to find the most beautiful church, the most beautiful museums. Anything ancient.”
“An obsession with physical health is a mental disease.”
“an obsession with self-definition can become a trap if that is all we think about, all we debate. If liberation terminology becomes an end in itself and our only end, it ceases to be a tool of liberation. Terms can be useful, even vital tools, but the house of La Raza that is waiting to be built needs many kinds.”
Source: De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
“An obsession with youth, fame, and beauty led girls and young women to leave behind nearly everything that made them special, unique, and important.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.”
“An obsessive is an addict-in-waiting.”
“An obstacle is an opportunity in disguise.”
“An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.”
“An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity”
“An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel”
“An obstacle which would frighten discreet men is nothing to determined women. They dare what men avoid, and sometimes they achieve an unusual success.”
Source: The Wild Geese
“An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.”
“An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.”
“An obstreperous urge seized him. he desperately wanted to hold on to her, to support his slipping heart, and when it slipped away, he realized she had gone away, incarcerating herself in his thought with her smile and unblemished innocence.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply
“An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
“An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.”
“An obvious problem with energy healing is determining who is qualified to practice. Currently anyone can claim to be a healer, whether through genuine ability, fraud, or self-delusion. I would like to see the development of tests that can show ‘something’ relevant is happening when healing is supposed to be occurring. For example, after I held a beaker of water for several minutes, a chemist friend reported that the water’s oxygenization had increased 25 percent. When he tested other healers, increased oxygenization also occurred, but only by about 1 percent. Does this have anything to do with healing? The field is still too mysterious for us to know.”
Source: The Energy Cure: Unraveling the Mystery of Hands-On Healing
“An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.”
“An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.”
“An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.”
“An occasionally, I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn't last.”
Source: Demian
“An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.”
Source: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
“An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.”
“An Ocean full of thoughts, a broken heart, and a tragic shore of insane storms.
I am trapped in a body that is not my own, a world that's too alien for my soul and an evil wounding my heart.”
“An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive”
“An ocean of feelings”
“An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery.”
“An ocean refuses no river.”