A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And his stillness made me realize how much I moved, constantly blinking, breathing, and rearranging myself.”
Source: A Discovery of Witches
“And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”
“And his voice sounds like a good-bye.”
Source: War Storm
“And his was so beautiful.”
Source: The Heir
“And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.”
“And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.”
“And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.”
“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.”
Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals
“And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.”
“And hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn’t use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s where we’ll win out in the long run. And some day, we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steam shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“And hold up to the sun my little taper.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“And holy. Fucking, Hell.
Charlie was hung.
He had a good ten inches of long, hard cock. It was like learning unicorns were real.”
Source: Hard to Be Good
“And holy hell, if his smile wasn't one of those that made a girl's heart fall over on itself.”
“and home isn't here
and home isn't there”
Source: The Last Usable Hour
“And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.”
Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays
“And home was where you planted flowers in the expectation that you would be there to see them bloom year after year.”
Source: Silver Lining
“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
Source: Poems
“And honestly, the thing is... there is something special about those monuments. Despite how we might apply our own individual thoughts and interpretations to them... Even if they wrote books filled with precise explanations about how and why Gaudi did things the way he did... there would still be something pure in his work that will never change. Something no scholar could ever explain. Something those crimes could not erase. Something like... a spirit. Like a dream buried in time. A life.”
Source: The Ghost Of Gaudi
“And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.”
“And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good.
And I'd love to be with you if only I could.”
“And hope is but a dream of those that wake.”
“And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
“And hopefully I have changed, you know, as a person. But honestly, if I have, it's because of you.”
Source: Normal People
“And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don’t know what it says, don’t vote for it.”
Source: An Involuntary Spy
“And how about that Barack Obama? You know what they're saying? For the first time he's starting to slip in the polls. Barack Obama is starting to slip in the polls. Don't worry. He's got a plan. He's going to be to campaigning in Europe.”
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“And how are you doing?" He didn't ask because he needed an answer. He asked because he needed her to know the answer mattered to him.”
Source: Babylon’s Ashes
“And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?”
Source: Impulse
“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”
“And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.”
“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.”
“And how can we talk of order overall
when the very placement of the stars
leaves us doubting just what shines for whom?”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“And how can we truly know ourselves unless we get still enough to listen to just ourself? Unless we give ourself the time and space to tune in.”
Source: Your Vivid Life: An Invitation to Live a Radically Authentic Life
“and how can you be happy when you can find satisfaction at any moment? It is not in pleasure that happiness consists, it is in desire – it is in breaking the chains that hold back this desire;”
Source: The 120 Days of Sodom
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“And how closely related to you is Cousin Beatrice?”
Reynaud gave him a look. “Not that close.
“Glad to hear it.” Vale dropped into a cushioned chair. “I hope she recovers fully so that you can then propose to her. Because I tell you now, matrimony truly is a blessed state, enjoyed by all men of good sense and halfway adequate bedroom skills.”
“Thank you for that edifying thought,” Reynaud growled.
Vale waved his glass. “Think nothing of it. I say, you haven’t forgotten how to treat a lady in the bedroom, have you?”
“Oh, for God’s sake!”
“You’ve been out of refined society for years and years now. I could give you some pointers, should you need them.”
Source: To Desire a Devil
“And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?”
“And how could anyone who was not a god predict the future, shaped as it was by human psychology, human behaviour and pure chance?”
Source: The Decagon House Murders
“And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?”
Source: The Humans: A Novel
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
Source: Out of the Silent Planet
“And how dare you think of paradise when Kashmir still exists on earth. Why the fuck don't you understand that the occupation itself is the deepest circle of hell and there's no hell beyond it”
“And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible?”
“And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”
Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)
“And how did one nurture something rotten? With care, he thought. Not with violence.”
Source: Mirrored Heavens
“And how did you escape, and yet he did not, so mighty a man as he was, and only orcs to withstand him?’
Pippin flushed and forgot his fear. ‘The mightiest man may be slain by one arrow,’ he said; ‘and Boromir was pierced by many.”
Source: The Return of the King
“And how did you know about that?” Seven looked at his watch. Chase held up a hand. “Let me guess, in two minutes and thirty seconds, I was going to tell you Martin called.”
“No.”
“No?”
“Six minutes and fifteen seconds. You had a couple of false starts. Then you were going to apologize because he wouldn’t help you by putting you in touch with his contacts in Washington.”
“Something tells me you’re going to be no fun come Christmas.”
Source: Seven
“And how did your day go?" I asked Ascanio. He turned to me, a dreamy look on his pretty face. "We killed things. There was blood. Fountains of blood. And then we had barbecue.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition