A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An understanding of business essentials is critical ti wise investing.”
“An understanding of every language-technical detail of a language feature or library component is neither necessary nor sufficient for writing good programs. In fact, an obsession with understanding every little detail is a prescription for awful - overelaborate and overly clever code.”
Source: The C++ Programming Language
“An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.”
“An understanding of media’s effects constitutes a civil defense against media fallout”
“An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...”
“An understanding of your organization's parts and connections is required to help everything work together.”
Source: Ripple: A Field Manual for Leadership that Works
“An understanding person is a mature person.”
“An undertaking beset with danger.”
“An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.”
“An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“An undevout astronomer is mad.”
“An undevout poet is an impossibility.”
Source: Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets
“An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace”
“An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.”
Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.”
“An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“an uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death”
“An uneducated people don't know what freedom is for that It is very dangerous when uneducated voters are allowed to vote, they will affect your freedom.”
“An uneducated person sees one (an educated) uneducated if they cannot understand.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!”
“An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.”
Source: Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain
“An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.”
“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.”
“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.”
Source: The Prophethood of All Believers
“An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.”
Source: Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof
“An unexamined life is a life of no account.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.”
“An unexamined system is a blueprint for someone else's victory.”
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”
“An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.”
“An unfair process helps no one. But once you've gone through with that process and you think that you know that person has raped someone, they have to go.”
“An unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“An unfaithful wife is like a cloth in an open marketplace.”
“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”
“An unfeeling child,'' I thought to myself, 'how lightly she dismisses her old playmate's troubles. I could not have imagined her to be so selfish.''
She lifted a mouthful to her lips; then, set it down again: her cheeks flushed, and the tears gushed over them. She slipped her fork to the floor, and hastily dived under the cloth to conceal her emotion.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
“An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.”
“An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!”
“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!”
“An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.”
“An unfortunate element of the human condition is that we focus on how we’ve been “wronged” rather than how we’ve “wronged.”
Source: Love and Suffering: Break the Emotional Chains that Prevent You from Experiencing Love
“An unfortunate reality is that most people are unhappy most of the time. Unhappiness is so widely
pervasive in the modern world that if you tell someone that you are happy, people are unlikely to
believe you. It is because we have stopped accepting that it is possible to achieve happiness”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.”
“An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!”