A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And I never would have remembered spoons, but he did. Of course.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"”
“And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.”
“And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.”
“And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.”
“And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.”
“And I only do what I do in life, which is model.”
“And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“And I ordered the cheesecake.”
Source: Me Before You
“And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.”
“And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.”
“And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.”
“and I pondered this curiously crazy life
and the things I failed to grasp as a girl
but thought I understood now
as a softer , wiser woman
I thought about life and death...
I thought about tonight's dinner menu too...”
Source: Lost in a Quatrain
“And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! [...] I know that ghosts HAVE wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only DO not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! [...] I CANNOT live without my life! I CANNOT live without my soul!”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“And I pray that the pieces of her broken world will come back together.”
“And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.”
Source: Historia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo
“And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matterof faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.”
Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
“And I promise you will find peace and harmony…in time…a wonderful wife who will beget you beautiful sons and strong daughters, who will themselves have children as fine as the Gods you worship”
Source: Sons of Darkness
“And I provide much- needed eye candy.”
Source: Allegiant Collector's Edition
“And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing.
Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black.
The current takes us on.
“I’m sorry!” I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. “I’m sorry, Manchee!”
“Todd?” he barks, confused and scared and watching me leave him behind. “Todd?”
“Manchee!” I scream.
Aaron brings his free hand towards my dog.
“MANCHEE!”
“Todd?”
And Aaron wrenches his arms and there’s a CRACK and a scream and a cut-off yelp that tears my heart in two forever and forever.
And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“And I quote: "Here in America, as elsewhere, there will always be tremulous little people of dim intellect and hyperactive imagination, burning for explanations to all life's vicissitudes. They grow impatient with learned analyses of the present. They are defeated by histories that illuminate the past. No species of scholarship or analysis could ever satisfy them; for they need that Wondrous Explanation that will quiet all their fears, thrill them with villains to revile, and never tax their feeble powers of intellection.”
Source: Reading for Survival
“And I quote, Michael Cole is still a massive tool!”
“And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.”
“And I read hundreds and thousands of books, day and night, always awake and always eager to seek health. But in no book I found what I was looking for. Then, shut up in my parents' house, I thought and suffered for hundreds and thousands of hours, always awake and always mindful of the tremendous anxiety of health. But I still have not found what I was looking for.”
Source: Il Tragico Quotidiano
“And I read the moral--A brave endeavour
To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
Is better than life with love forever,
And love is the sweetest thing on earth.”
“And I realise I am afraid of earth, the way it holds us, making useless things out of wings.”
Source: There Is an Anger that Moves
“And I realise now, more than ever, that I have lost all my best years!”
“And I realised why I have become a poet. I can feel the pain and love of people. I can feel the innermost feelings of people. The tenderness of hurt souls. And I want to heal the world by my words.”
“And I realised why I have become a poet. It’s because I can feel the pain and love of people. I can feel the innermost feelings of people. The tenderness of hurt souls. And I want to heal the world by my words.”
“And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.”
“And I realize my own culpability here--I don't want to spend the time and energy figuring how to solve my own rodent problems, so instead I nuke them. The irony is that, ostensibly, I have to come to this remote homestead to learn about Nature, with a capital N. To meditate on wilderness, on wildness. Only instead of apprenticing myself to the most basic concerns of such a life. . . I'm cheating myself of any real learning by opting for short-term solutions to long-term problems. It's a poisoning of the mind and the imagination, and what hemorrhages is a sense of responsibility to anything beyond my own comfort. But I do it, time and again. When the bait is gone, I put out another.”
Source: Breaking into the Backcountry
“And I realize now that that was . . . that’s the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you’re loved, let it wash over you”
Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
“And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.”
Source: The Geri Rogue
“And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.”
“And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)”
“And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.”
Source: Seraphina
“And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.”
“And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.”
Source: White Oleander
“And I realized as walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty separate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.”
Source: White Oleander
“And I realized at that moment that I’d made a decision without even knowing it.”
Source: To Dwell Among Cedars
“And I realized that a death in the family wasn’t permanent—that a new life could replace an old life, and that the world moved on. Families moved on.”
Source: The Suicide Journal
“And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.”
“And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.”
“And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person you fall in love with doesn't always love you back. But that's ok, because at the very least it makes you stronger. And brings you to a place where you can fall in love with yourself. And that to me is more important than finding someone that only makes you complete when they are around, It's really about Finding the person that will teach you ALL the lessons you need to know ...so that you feel complete all by yourself.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.”
“And I realized that, subjectively, the thing I valued above all else I had known since the purge was a kindness I had neither anticipated nor earned.”
“And I realized that the end of someone you desperately want to love you but never did can hurt as much as that of someone who treasures you.”
Source: Where Serpents Lie