A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying.”
Source: Like No Other
“And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am”
Source: Honeybee
“And I'm platonically in love with you.,""That's literally the boy-girl version of 'no homo' ,but I appreciate the sentiment”
“and I’m really just searching
for better, more redemptive
language is the thing,
some version of the story
where all the characters
inside look like me and every
single one of us escapes
with our heads.”
Source: The Study of Human Life
“And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about how we won't change the world or the way we treat the world or the way we treat each other [...]”
Source: Ain't Burned All the Bright
“And I’m so envious of people who think, Who cares if this person doesn’t like me, who cares if they think I’m annoying?”
Source: Baek Sehee 2 Books Collection Set
“And I’m sorry,” Big Earrings said, “But how is some course going to teach them how marriage works? I’ve been married three times, and I haven’t figured it out yet.” She snorted. “I figured out how to call a lawyer, though.”
Source: A Match Made in High School
“And I’m sorry that I wasn’t there for you. I should have been there to encourage you to get better and to help you through something I didn’t fully understand. But because I didn’t understand it, I got angry and ran away from something really scary.”
Source: Hammers, Strings, and Beautiful Things
“And I’m stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador.”
Source: Feral Sins
“And I'm sure I'm a jerk for saying this, but the fact that you've never been with another man is so hot."
Alma rolled her eyes. "Yeah, you're a jerk for saying that. I should go fuck someone else just to prove a point. I'm not a fan of misogyny."
"I know it's gross. I can't help it. Some weird primal Mexican machismo thing that I can't help feeling. At least I'm aware that it's not cool."
Alma's anger was still present, but the sincerity in Jaime's eyes was undeniable. She felt torn between wanting to protect herself and wanting to give him a chance to make amends.”
Source: My Fair Señor
“And I’m sure they all played by the rules, just liked I did. By the way, when I got laid off four and a half years ago, the stock of my company was at an all-time high. Our CEO retired. He was paid $70 million. Maybe now that is only worth $30 million. Or maybe in a few years if he plays by the rules it will be worth $130 million. I’ll still be worth nothing. And I won’t have a home or my children. You see why I wonder about playing by the rules? Because I always do. As a result, you’re standing where I sleep.”
Source: This is Rage
“And I'm thankful, in that moment, full to the brim with gratitude that Christian is with me. He's here. My partner. My best friend.”
Source: Boundless
“and i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“And I'm trying to stay strong. I really, really am. But he smells so damn good, and his lips are just right there... all soft and inviting, and all I can think about is having them on my body.”
Source: Gabriel's Collar
“And I'ma still say "Fuck life" until I die”
“And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.”
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
“And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.”
“And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.”
“And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.”
“And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.”
“And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.”
Source: From Poverty to Power
“And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.”
“And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded.”
Source: Fate's Edge
“And I met Madeline's necromancer. His name's Luca." "A death detector?" Tod made a face. "That's creepy." "It gets weirder. He's dating Sophie." "On purpose?”
Source: Before I Wake
“And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.”
“And I must also remember the heartbreaking rules of Earth School. The reality is that, at any given time in a human life, we cannot see beyond what we understand to be true right then. We are only ever working with the level of wisdom that we have acquired up till that moment. We cannot access tomorrow's wisdom today, much less yesterday. And when wisdom finally does arrive, it often enters our minds through the pain of lived experience. If you haven't lived the experience yet, then you don't get the wisdom.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.”
“And I must bear
What is ordained with patience, being aware
Necessity doth front the universe
With an invincible gesture.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?”
“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”
“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”
“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said:
"Master, what is it that I hear? Who are
those people so defeated by their pain?"
And he to me: "This miserable way
is taken by the sorry souls of those
who lived without disgrace and without praise.
They now commingle with the coward angels,
the company of those who were not rebels
nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them —
even the wicked cannot glory in them.”
Source: Inferno
“And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
On us, the Poets militant below.”
Source: Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes: with a Preface and Notes by the Editor. ...
“And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.”
Source: Church and ministry
“And I need you, my love," he said. "I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that—Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you."
"To look after Augusta?" she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. "To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?"
"Yes," he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet."And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover.”
Source: The Temporary Wife
“And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.”
Source: Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
“And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.”
“And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.”
Source: The city in which I love you: poems
“And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.”
“And I never felt more alive, until I spread my wings and flew away. Flew away with the ravens. It was then that I knew, knew that I was one of them, even though I was red. Red with blood and anger and hate. They accepted me, as The Red Raven.”
“And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.”
“And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.”
“And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world”
“And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.”
Source: Spoon River Anthology
“And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about the intensity of being watched, all the time. Those are some things that I didn't know about prison.”
“And I never thought this day would come, but here I am, sitting in front of the ritual fire, repeating Sanskrit mantras I don’t understand. He’s looking at me now, and I can feel it on my skin. We are getting married. Damini is locked away somewhere in a room, Lakshmi is at Lord Krishna’s feet in the heavens, and I’m going to be his wife.”
Source: So I Let It Be
“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”