A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And he smiled the wild, vicious smile that had made me fall in love.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”
“And he spoke now about the "Word", about the cult of the Word, about eloquence, which he called the triumph of humanity. Because the Word was the glory of humankind, and it alone gave dignity to life. Not just humanism, but humanity itself, man's dignity and self-respect--they were inseparable from the Word, from literature.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
“And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.”
“And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.”
Source: Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice
“And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.”
Source: Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, etc
“And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.”
“And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw.”
“And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.”
“And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.”
“And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.”
Source: Unwind
“And he, this reborn thing made of hunger and memory, sank to his knees, her joy still warm in his mouth.”
“And he thought, I shall go on blindly and secretly jumbling all these things together and making no sense of them as long as I live. Maybe every human creature carries some such inescapable burden. That is being human. A very weird affair.”
Source: The Green Knight
“And he thought of the two people who had held his job before him: Sam and Astrid. Both beaten into despair by trying to hold this group of kids together in the face of one disaster after another. Both of them now happy to let Edilio handle it.
“No wonder,” Edilio muttered.
“Stay inside unless absolutely necessary,” Edilio shouted, and not for the first or last time wished he was still just Sam’s faithful sidekick.”
Source: Plague
“And he told me that anything more than twelve minutes of personal pain was self-indulgence, which did more to jerk me out of the state of complete numbness I was in than anything else could have done”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.”
Source: Treasure Island
“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“And he took the slap like a man. No whining. What else do you want from a fella?”
Source: Paris in April
“And he treated me with a chivalrous masculine know-how that I sopped up like a person who'd never heard of how chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.”
Source: Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.”
“And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.”
“And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“And he was gesturing up through the trees above to show them how it was woven across the sky or how the sky was woven into the trees, he wasn‘t sure which. But there it was, he smiled, and the weaving went on, green and blue, if you watched and saw the forest shift its humming loom.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you.”
“And he was intrigued. He was done denying it to himself. He had questions that he wanted answered. And they were all about her.”
Source: Along Came a Lady
“And he was like "The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk -" -Abby”
“And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend?”
Source: The Host
“And he was the first crush I ever had that wasn't a scientist-- it's a different thing altogether. It made me a little peeved at myself, to be honest. Half the girls in Gotham City would have been happy just touching his jacket. I didn't want it to happen. But I'm human, all right? And for a while, we were better than kids with a crush. We were actually friends.”
Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3
“And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.”
Source: Selected poems
“And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.”
“And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!”
Source: War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
“And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.”
Source: Archipiélago Gulag
“And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.”
“And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox
For he is everything and nothing
Hero and fool
Potent, helpless
And with one word of truth or treachery
He will save or damn the earth
Because he is mad and sane
Cold and passionate
Lost and found”
Source: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.”
Source: Early Poems
“And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. ‘You too come forth,’ He will say, ‘Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!’ And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, ‘Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!’ And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, ‘Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?’ And He will say, ‘This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.’ And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him . . . and we shall weep . . . and we shall understand all things! Then we shall understand everything! . . . and all will understand”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.”
Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
“And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.”
Source: Girl With Curious Hair
“And he wonders, deep in the self-isolated recesses of his mind whether he is killing himself with anger, whether he is destroying his system with fury.”
Source: Mad House
“And he would be at that table in the town house, roaring with laughter- never again cold and cruel and solemn. Never again anyone's slave or whore.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“And he would go through it all, over again, just for her.”
Source: The Reaper
“And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire