A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.”
“A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“A fit body is not the goal, it’s the by-product of consistent choices made in favor of well-being.”
“A fit body & mind complement a healthy life.”
“A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver.”
Source: Desperate Duchesses
“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
“A fit mind aspires to those who are better, and the unhealthy blame those who are less.”
“A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.”
“A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.”
Source: The Republic
“A fit of passionate sobbing choked her. She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and his chiseled lips curled in exquisite disdain. There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic, her tears and sobs annoyed him.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio.”
“A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.”
“A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.”
Source: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
“A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.”
“A five-second break doesn’t exist, nor a ten-second one. Not here or anywhere else. When you’re an adult, there are bathroom breaks and then there is lunch.”
Source: In Limbo
“A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.”
Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
“A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.”
Source: The 5-Minute Teacher: How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias)
“A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?”
“A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.”
Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories
“A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.”
“A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.”
“A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.”
“A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.”
Source: Ninety-three
“A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.”
Source: Notes on Paris
“A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.”
Source: Women: The Longest Revolution
“A fixed mindset, characterized by a tendency to give up easily in the face of challenges, serves as a red flag indicating potential underachievement.”
“A fixed mindset limits your potential, while a growth mindset opens doors to endless possibilities.”
Source: #MAXOUT Your Life
“A fixed mindset will hold you back, but a growth mindset will propel you forward. Embrace the power of yet, and anything is possible.”
Source: 3 Day QLA Seminar 1995
“A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.”
“A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.”
Source: Last Words
“A flag once raised will never fall!”
“A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.”
“A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.”
Source: Self-portrait
“A flame can create many shadows and each one will depend on the flame to survive. However, the flame without its shadows loses its meaning, for to enlighten is to create shadows. We then confuse the meaning for its creation, and attach ourselves to the shadows we create, when in fact we should pay attention to the flame creating them. For the flame can create many shadows but the shadows can only be that which the flame allows them to be. There can be many shadows created by a flame but a shadow can only be a shadow.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.”
“A flame started on the stained fabric of the seat, then began to inch up the back. It felt like magic. He had just created it out of nothing. Now it danced and moved like a living thing.”
Source: Playing with Fire
“A flaming red flapper dress, a sleek black dress with full, satin purple sleeves and a matching flounce, a summery cotton frock with a cheerful red poppy print, and a musketeer's gold-trimmed jacket tumbled out of the pile of clothing. A mound of scarves fluttered onto the bed.
Marge fingered the frayed, tasseled edge of a silk jacquard scarf in shades of amethyst and emerald green.”
Source: The Chocolatier
“A flamingo is a pink giraffe bird. That’s pretty exotic until you consider that a Pekin duck is the Amelia Earhart of avians.”
Source: Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world
“A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A flash flood had come into Helen’s life, careening down canyon walls. All that love couldn’t be trapped anymore—it had to find a path or it would destroy her. She knew now that the path didn’t lead to Stuart, but water, like love, is good at finding where it’s meant to be.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.”
Source: No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life
“A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes.
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies;
While wakes the nodding blossom
But just too late to see
What lip hath touched her bosom
And drained her rosary.”
Source: Poems
“A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.”
Source: Poems by John B Tabb
“A flash of light at the end of the night,
There is a gentle breeze;
The light shines across the horizon,
The birds are all calling to themselves;
The bud of the tree shook its head,
Flowers are blooming in the trees;
Look at this beautiful morning.
Good Morning”
Source: Foodhunda (comic book),
“A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.”
“A flat black bug, that is London.”
Source: The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems
“A flat map is fun in its purest state.”
Source: Gamelife: A Memoir
“A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.”