A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An op-ed in the Boston Globe, remarking on near-corpses who keep on doing what they've always done, compared me to Mick Jagger. Never before had I been so honored. The columnist mentioned others: Keith Richards, Alice Munro, and William Trevor, who was born the year I was. At seventy, Jagger is a juvenile among us eighty-five-year-olds—but his face as he jumps and gyrates resembles something retrieved from a bog.”
Source: Essays After Eighty
“An open beginner's mind is a powerful tool for developing patience.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.”
“An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.”
“An open flask of industrial liquid gas that is venting into the indoor environment should be thought of as the same as a smoldering fire, as they both create a dangerous oxygen deficient environment for the human.”
“An open heart is an open mind.”
“An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.”
“An open mind, an open heart, and an open soul are the main ingredients for an open world.”
“An open mind but not an empty head.”
“An open mind does not censor truth, it discerns it through recognition, study, doubt, and faith. It recognizes it as complimentary to every truth in existence. When confronted with truth that makes one uncomfortable give yourself time to be open, but also time to acclimatize”
Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“An open mind is a must while a closed mind is a bust.”
“An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.”
Source: Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
“An open mind is a traveled mind.”
Source: The Mom's Guide to Travel with Young Kids
“An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.”
“An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in.”
Source: The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want
“An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.”
“An open mind is the secret in
making friends.”
“An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.”
Source: Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter
“An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.”
“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.”
Source: THE ABOLITION OF MAN
“An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.”
“An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.”
“An open society is a healthy society; transparency is necessary to trust.”
Source: Requiem
“An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.”
“An open umbrella is just a closed beautiful sky.”
“An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.”
“An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.”
“An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”
“An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.”
“An openness to being changed by the client is required of the person-centred therapist. A person-centred therapist who is closed off from being changed implicitly denies the full humanity of the client.”
Source: Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.”
“An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.”
Source: The spectator
“An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.”
“An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.”
Source: Character and Opinion in the United States
“An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.”
“An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.”
“An opinion is just an opinion as there is no accounting for taste.”
Source: The Kodach Secrets: The Book of Real-Life Transformation
“An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.”
“An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.”
“An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.”
“An opinion that goes beyond "Cute outfit!" is appreciated. If a person regularly comments and they too have a blog, and we have gotten to know each other's respective styles through commenting on each other's blogs - of course I'm more likely to check out their recommendations.”
“An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!”
Source: The Master Christian
“An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.”
Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum
“An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.”
Source: Gandhi's Wisdom Box
“An opportunist reads the problem like a short story and writes the solution like a novel.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.”
“An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.”
“An opportunity isn’t a free pass to success. It requires courage to try and a will to succeed.”
Source: I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
“An opportunity leading to your blessing can totally change your life”