A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.”
“And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.”
“and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.”
“And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.”
“And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the senses to reach the soul, did it not also stand to reason that dogs -- at least dogs of Mr. Bones' caliber -- would have it in them to feel a similar aesthetic impulse? Would they not, in other words, be able to appreciate art? As far as Willy knew, no one had ever thought of this before. Did that make him the first man in recorded history to believe such a thing was possible? No matter. It was an idea whose time had come. If dogs were beyond the pull of oil paintings and string quartets, who was to say they wouldn't respond to an art based on the sense of smell? Why not an olfactory art? Why not an art for dogs that dealt with the world as dogs knew it?”
Source: Timbuktu
“And if, as he had floated in the cold darkness, his thoughts turned to the curve of an ear, the weight of a step, a blow that was checked before it could land, that didn't matter. It meant nothing, and he should forget it.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.”
Source: The Spirit of St. Louis
“And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.”
“And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.”
Source: Make Your Bed: Small things that can change your life... and maybe the world
“And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost
“And if by some miracle he did manage to start the truck, Pigpen and Dust would stand around it like human cement pillars.”
Source: Long Way Home
“And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.”
“And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.”
Source: Tilt
“And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.”
“And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.”
“And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears–that's what soma is.”
Source: Brave New World
“And if every day begins with a battle, how can I ever find peace?”
Source: Into the Uncut Grass
“And if everything we love
is considered art
then our love is
the greatest masterpiece.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.”
Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT
“And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.”
“And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.”
“And if god were to gift me eternal life, I would simply refused it for a life without you, is no different then death itself.”
“And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.”
“And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.”
“And if Happily Ever After is how a fairytale ends, then ours ended here. But truly, it had only just begun, for love is like that. One peak is crested only to reveal another. One depth plumbed, only to uncover greater depths still, and a thousand years from now, when we are nothing more than terrifying legends to the mortals who were once my kin, we two will still be learning our love as one learns the heights of music, the breadth of art, and the deep deep depths of the written word.”
Source: Die With Your Lord
“And if he does not know the answer he is at least asking the right questions [to himself].”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition
“And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)”
“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“And if he was kind and friendly and funny, and if he told you about places so beautiful that you wanted to go with him to see them, and if he listened to you talk like he actually cared about what you were saying?
And if he tried to protect you when other people tried to tell you what to do, as if they owned you? And if he has the handsomest face you've ever seen, no matter if the skin has been damaged, because he's just lovely even so?”
Source: Wait for Me
“And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan”
Source: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
“And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.”
“And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.”
“And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.”
“And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation.”
Source: Dramatic opinions and essays
“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Men are its philosophies. They lived, these Spaniards of the Golden Age; they felt and did; they did not think. Life was what they sought and found, life in its turmoil, its fervour and its variety. Passion was the seed that brought them forth and passion was the flower they bore. But passion alone cannot give rise to a great art. In the arts the Spaniards invented nothing. They did little in any of those they practised, but give a local colour to a virtuosity they borrowed from abroad. Their literature, as I have ventured to remark, was not of the highest rank; they were taught to paint by foreign masters, but, inapt pupils, gave birth to one painter only of the very first class; they owed their architecture to the Moors, the French and the Italians, and the works themselves produced were best when they departed least from their patterns. Their preeminence was great, but it lay in another direction: it was a preeminence of character. In this I think they have been surpassed by none and equalled only by the ancient Romans. It looks as though all the energy, all the originality, of this vigorous race had been disposed to one end and one end only, the creation of man. It is not in art that they excelled, they excelled in what is greater than art--in man. But it is thought that has the last word.”
Source: Don Fernando
“And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, if I laugh particularly loudly, it is because I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“And if I can can, you can can.”
“And if I can't be yours now I'll wait here on this ground till you come, till you take me away. Maybe someday.”
Source: Maybe Someday
“And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.”
“And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face
And if I can't be near you I would rather be adrift in space
And if the gods desert us I would burn this chapel into flames
And if someone tries to hurt you I would put myself in your place”
“And if I consume another
mortal’s flesh, will I like
god before me, shit a million stars upon
the naked, wretched sky?”
Source: dead, but dreaming
“And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.”
Source: Front and Center
“And if I die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take
But please don't cry
Just know that I have made these songs for you.”
“And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.”
“And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.”