A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A fine young man and a fine young felly he always was, except that in the old days, before you began coming in here, Mr. Witherwax, he maybe had too much money and spent too much of it on girls. Take them alone, either one; the money without the women, or a good girl without the money that can be a help to a young felly, and he's fixed for life. But put them together; and often as not, the young felly goes on the booze. ("The Better Mousetrap")”
Source: Tales from Gavagan's Bar
“A finely crafted quote is more effective and powerful than a book due to the unparalleled flexibility of interpretation it provides.”
“A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
Source: Einstein's Essays in Science
“A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
“A finger beckons.
My choice is to turn away.
It is a mistake.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“A finger
is a gun--
a wallet
is a gun, skin
a shiny pistol,
a demon, a barrel
already ready--
hands up
don't shoot--”
Source: Brown: Poems
“a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.”
Source: The Sorrow Proper
“A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.”
“A fingerpost indicates that this path leads to Abercynafon, which is not on or even close to the route of Beacons Way, additional confusion is caused by virtue of the Beacons Way roundel attached to the post being yellow in color, rather than the usual white. With cursory attention, the sign may be easily dismissed as not being relevant, however you should take this right turn.”
“A finish line is never an end, it’s a marker that proves your dreams can become realities.”
“A finished person is a boring person.”
“A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.”
“A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.”
Source: Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
“A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”
“A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.”
Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle
“A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.”
“A finíssima membrana entre o seguir e o perseguir me permeia.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud – God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!”
Source: The Crucible
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
Source: Either/Or, Part I
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.”
“A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.”
Source: The Princess of Sparta
“A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“A fire is a nice idea. But won't we be spending the evening under the covers?”
Source: Primal Force
“A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste.”
“A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction
“A firefly hunt has none of the radiance of a cherry-blossom party. Dark, dreamy, rather -- might one say? Perhaps something of the child's world, the world of the fairy story in it. Something not to be painted, but set to music, the mood of it taken up on piano or koto.”
“A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.”
Source: Mr. Dooley Says
“A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.”
“A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.”
“A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact.”
“A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.”
“A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.”
Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir
“A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.”
“A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song”
“A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.”
Source: Pleasures of Literature
“A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.”
“A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.”
“A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.”
“A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .”
“A first impulse was never a crime.”
“A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.”
Source: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
“A First Kiss from Vexing the Highlander by Terry Spear in Enchanting the Highlander:
Feeling panicked, she was afraid she wouldn’t make it down the corridor to her room in time before she was caught.
Alban must have assumed the same thing and suddenly moved her against the wall with his hot body pressing indecently close and held her hostage. “Forgive me,” he breathed against her cheek. And then he moved his warm lips against her mouth and kissed her.
A lady with the right upbringing would never, ever kiss a gentleman—or an untitled Highlander—let alone do so in the king’s own castle when he planned to marry her off to one of his loyal lords. She would never have kissed Alban back—or so she told herself—except to pretend she was not who she was, rather just a servant girl having a good time with one of the king’s honored guests.
Yet, she gave into the kiss as if she’d been trained in the art of kissing, which, with the way Alban was kissing her back, she found it easy to follow his lead. She soaked up the feel of his warm mouth against hers, and the smoldering flame that ignited low in her belly and fanned the heat all the way through her, despite the chill in the corridor. His chest pressed against her breasts, making them tingle with the most delicious need. His manhood stirred against her waist, and she realized why her mother had warned her and her sister never to kiss a gentleman in such a manner. Indeed, not until she was wed to him, for she felt urges she’d never known she could experience. Womanly urges that compelled her to take this further.
She wrapped her arms around his neck, Alban’s mouth smiling slightly against her lips, as she pressed him tighter. She thought if he was as close as he could be, whoever was about to pass them by—hopefully without stopping to speak—would not see her, as tall as Alban was. Though she was hoping the Highlander would not presume she was always this forward with a man whether she knew him or not. Yet she was thrilled beyond measure to enjoy his attentions, even if it was just to keep her reputation intact. But if the man stopped to speak with Alban, and the Highlander quit kissing her to speak with the person in kind, her character would be in tatters.
“Ahem,” the male said, but continued to walk on by.
She didn’t dare glance in his direction to see if she knew the man. Alban didn’t either, but she wasn’t sure if it was because he was so wrapped up in kissing her, or because he was afraid to reveal who she was.
If Alban hadn’t been holding her so close, she would have melted right into the stone floor, her body boneless. His breathing was as labored as hers, his heartbeat pounding just as fast. He didn’t make a move to release her, waiting while the footfalls faded away. He smelled of summer and the woods, of freshly-washed, earthy male. And then the footsteps were gone.
Yet even then, Alban didn’t let her go. “Wait, just a moment more.”
Source: Enchanting the Highlander
“A first kiss in the book stacks. Now that was romantic.”
“A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.”