A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.”
“And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.”
Source: Winter Solstice
“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”
Source: Where the wild things are
“And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.”
“and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness”
Source: The Moth's Song and Other Stories
“And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.”
Source: Poems
“And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.”
Source: Collected Poems
“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
“And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.”
“And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.”
Source: East of Eden
“And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.”
“And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.”
Source: New and Selected Poems 1974-1994
“And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.”
Source: The path to the new music
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”
“and the world keeps turning.”
“And the world must always seem to be either the Garden of Eden, from which he is about to be expelled, or a circle in hell, into which he has wandered like Dante or Orpheus only to find that he can’t get out.”
Source: Desert of the Heart
“And the world out there is not within our control, our past -even that we keep trying to change it- it's just not within our control to change, but everything else is. Everything in our present experience is within our control [...]. What we decide to think, what we think about, are completely within our control. We forget this. We think that our thoughts are not within our control and in fact most of us don't even know what we're thinking. We are responding to our thoughts that we aren't even aware of. This really matters because our thoughts are what create our feelings. Everything you do in your life is becase you want to feel a certain way. Every single thing you do is because you want to feel a certain way. That is really good to know, and if your feelings are caused by your thoughs and what you do in your life you do it to feel better wouln't it be important to know what you're thinking?”
“And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.”
Source: Selected poems
“And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.”
“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.”
Source: Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
“And the world was a wonderful place, and happiness was a real thing even if welled up only occasionally into conscious moments of joy like this one.”
Source: Someone to Wed
“And the world will still be imperfect, because men are imperfect. Good men will still be killed by bad, or sometimes by other good men, and there will still be pain and disease and famine, anger and hate. But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better. And the gifts put into some men, that shine as bright as Eirias the sword, shall light the dark corners of life for all the rest, in so brave a world.”
Source: Silver on the Tree
“And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.”
“And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue skies and wind and birds had not been only a dream.”
Source: The Silver Chair
“And the worst thing about such shows on the stage is that the public gets so accustomed to all these untruths that they admire them and applaud them.”
Source: Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
“And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.”
Source: The Wedding
“And the worst thing was knowing that it wasn‘t Callum putting the thoughts into her mind; it was knowing that they‘d been there all along.”
Source: Supernova
“And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.”
Source: Pretties
“And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments.”
“And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.”
“And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.”
“And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel.”
“And their death was a supernova – their death demanded attention.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.”
Source: East of Eden
“and their hearts are already eroded and I
too”
Source: Falling Awake
“And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.”
“And their queerdo tale? It never followed a straight line—just a deliciously messy path from plot twist to plot twist.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had previously only experienced through music. When they were worried, she experienced the squeals of violins, the quick-heartbeat thrum of a thriller soundtrack. Risk and Reign's bickering had the impact of a rattling gourd and snare drum. Oli's hopeful questions were reminiscent of the lo-fi hip-hop Nina played when she studied.”
Source: A Snake Falls to Earth
“And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.”
“And then a door opened and a man appeared, coming out of the living room. He was in his late thirties, with dark hair and a moustache, wearing a blue blazer with a crest on the front pocket. He had a lazy walk, one hand in his pocket and a cigarette in the other. Fraser had the immediate thought that this was a man whom it would be easy to dislike. He did not just arouse antipathy; he almost seemed to cultivate it.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“And then a great thing in my life was going to India.”
“And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.”
“And then a masculine voice drawled virtually into her scalp, fluttering her hair and causing gooseflesh to sweep up her arms. "Do you think it's fair that you have seen every inch of me, and I have seen none of you?"
Oh no, oh no, oh no. Her heart had recovered. It was now drilling away inside her chest like a woodpecker.
The warmth of the man's body behind her was as penetrating as a sunbeam, though not one bit of him actually touched her---she pressed herself closer to the oak tree, to make bloody sure of that. But his scent immobilized her as surely as a net: sun-heated skin and the faintest tang of sweat, and something else, something rich and complicated and fundamental that started a primal buzz of recognition in her blood and made her peculiarly aware of how very female she happened to be.
This wasn't the groomed-for-a-ball brew of starch and soap with which she was familiar. This was stripped-to-the-essence male.”
Source: Beauty and the Spy
“And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely.”
Source: Twisted
“And then a strange calm fell over her and the snow and limbs were no longer obstacles. In this moment she became a part of the forest and avoided pitfalls and roots with ease. She felt free as the howling winds and the birds of prey that trailed them.”
Source: Wolfsbane's Daughter
“And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.”
Source: Numbers
“And then a throb hits you on the left ide of the head so hard that your head bobs to the right...There's no way that came from inside your head, you think. That's no metaphysical crisis. God just punched you in the face.”
Source: A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary
“And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.”
Source: Where She Went
“And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'”
“And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.”