A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An out-of-context picture is worth a thousand lies.”
“An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work in cars.”
“An outdoor café and your French beret are quick ways to my soul, but a good jazz is like standing next to my heart. Don't sail away without your sail-mate, because I've charted our course to a sunset paradise. ~ Fidelis O Mkparu (2016), author of 'Love's Affliction”
“An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.”
“An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.”
“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.”
Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings
“An outright enemy is a true blessing than betrayal kiss of my loved one.”
“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”
“An outside enemy exists only if there is anger
inside.”
“An outsider can see some things much better.”
“An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.”
“An outsider's inquisitiveness to know another's private affairs is natural, but not so in children with respect to their parents. Children know the overt personal life of their parents. It is a crime for children to probe into mistakes made by their parents, like detectives looking for evidence of crimes. Any man can make mistakes, however good he may be. It is wrong for children to inquisitively probe into their parents' lives, and have fun or show anger over what they uncover. It is like digging into the heads of ancient statues in search of archaeological artefacts. Nanda spoke with anger.”
Source: කලියුගය
“An outsider's point of view is always handy.”
Source: Oliphant's Anthem
“An outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred times more religious than all the theoretical preachers of all religions combined.”
“An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor.”
“An outstanding historical feature of the pie is that it is a self-contained meal which can be eaten in the hand, without the need of cutlery, crockery or napery.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“An outstanding woman stands out and gets counted among the great. She does not just sit and count those who are great.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“An outstanding woman stands out and gets counted among the great. She does not just sit and count those who are great. She goes out there and does what it takes to become great.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.”
Source: The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ
“An over-eating mouth tortures whole body and over-speaking mouth tortures everybody.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An over examination of life can deter you from life itself”
“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
Source: Killosophy
“An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution
“An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does”
“An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.”
“An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.”
“An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.”
“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”
Source: Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time
“An overdecorated CV is usually an overcompensation for being uneducated and/or inexperienced.”
“An overdose in the morning, red carpet in the evening. Only in Hollywood.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.”
“An overemphasis on teamwork and consensus can cause a kind of mental lethargy. If you subordinate your own expectations to the expectations of the group, you’re absolved of the responsibilities for the choices the group makes.”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“An overflow of good converts to bad.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“An overflowing pot must be emptied before anything new can be added. If you cling to the sorrows of the past, how can you make space for the happiness and joy of the present?”
Source: विप्लवी [Biplavi]
“An overhead light blinked and extinguished.
Armitage drew the pistol with his right hand. He swung and aimed, checking there were no innocent people obstructing the way. None. Fired a single shot. It sailed over a plant and table setting. The round hit an inch from the watcher's heart. On impact the brown-haired assailant tipped. Jake ducked. A table toppled. The watcher groaned as the force of the momentum pushed him toward the floor-to-ceiling glass wall.
A second table collapsed, plates thrown asunder. Jake stepped forward, arm stretched and gun straight. A waitress hugged herself, crying. Two more male patrons hit the floor and crawled between chairs.”
Source: The Russian Ink
“An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.”
“An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.”
Source: Quantum Gravity
“An overly timid engagement with the debates of our time will rob one of the ferocity of feeling that is necessary to move the world. "If you do not feel it, you will not get it by hunting for it”
Source: The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
“An overnight success is ten years in the making.”
“An overnight success is usally twenty years in the making!”
Source: Banking, Beer & Robert the Bruce
“An overturned cup of wine.
A stone path sailing in moonlight.
Where the blue grass is flattened,
an azalea flower abandoned.
The eucalyptus wood swirls.
Stars above teem into a kaleidoscope.
On a rusty anchor,
eyes mirror the dizzy sky.
Holding up a book to shade the candle
and with a finger in between the lips,
I sit in an eggshell quiet,
having a semi-transparent dream.”
“An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. “Well” suggested the doctor, “try something that leaves you a little short of breath.” So the buy took up smoking.”
“An overweight person has similar cravings and binge eating habits as a pregnant woman.”
“An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they're from, their names, what they're thinking about at that moment, what they regret, what they hope for, their past loves, their current dreams ... and if they happen to be women (especially the young ones) then the urge becomes intense.
How quickly would you want to see her naked, admit it, and naked through to her heart. How you try to learn where she comes from, where she's going, why she's here and not elsewhere!
While letting your eyes wander all over her, you imagine love affairs for her, you ascribe her deep feelings. You think of the bedroom she must have, and a thousand things besides ... right down to the battered slippers into which she must slip her feet when she gets out of bed.”
“An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.”
Source: Gen Intro Psycho
“An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“An owl, an ape or a lion are not responsible for the fate of the world, because they do not have the power to destroy the world or the ability to save the world! Only human beings are responsible for the fate of this world!”
“An owl is mostly air.”
Source: Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country