A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And where do these legends come from?”
“You don’t really think that I was the first thing on the island, now do you?”
Wendy actually had thought that, because she had never written about anything existing before Peter. Perhaps a prequel was in order.”
Source: The Rescue
“And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.”
“And where does she find them?”
Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
“And where does that minute go, that minute that separates life from death? I want those sixty seconds back.”
Source: 34 Pieces of You
“And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.”
“And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.”
“And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.”
“And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”
Source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784
“And where love ends, hate begins”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine”
Source: Leviathan
“And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.”
Source: H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection
“And where our hearts
should be are but the palms
of monkeys.”
Source: Post-Millennium Rhapsody
“And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.”
Source: The works of Ben Jonson, with notes, and a biogr. memoir, by W. Gifford. With intr. and appendices by F. Cunningham
“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.”
“And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.”
Source: Shakespeare's HAMLET eBook
“And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.”
Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“And where the words of woneb are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives. That we not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which so often we accept as our own: for instance "I can't possibly teach Black women's writing- their experience is so different from mine," yet how many years have you spent teaching Plato and Shakespeare and Proust? Or another: "She's a white woman and what could she possibly have to say to me?" Or, "she's a lesbian, what would my husband say, or my chairman?" Or again, "This woman writes of her sons and I have no children." And all the other endless ways in which we rob ourselves of ourselves and each other.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.”
“And where there is love, you can live even without happiness. Life is good even in sorrow; it is good to live in the world. However you live.”
“And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.”
“And where there was life, there was hope. Maybe not now, not yet, but someday, they could still have their future.”
Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”
Source: The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere,: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens...
“And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?”
Source: The Voice of the People
“And, where white women are slapped down for daring to be sexual, women of color are slapped down for daring to be anything else: Over the course of her career, Nicki Minaj has spoken about abortion rights, the need for female musicians to write their own work, the difficulty of being an assertive woman in a business setting, and the obstacles black women face in being recognized as creative forces. She is the best-selling female rapper of all time, and her success had done a tremendous amount to awaken critical and commercial interest in female voices within a genre that was largely seen (fairly or unfairly) as a man's game before she showed up. Nicki Minaj has done everything in her power to frame herself as a thoughtful black feminist voice, up to and including staging public readings of Maya Angelou poems. And yet, approximately 89 percent of Nicki Minaj's press coverage, outside of the feminist blogosphere, tends to focus on: her butt.”
Source: Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
“And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!”
“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.”
“And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.”
“And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“And wheresoever, in his rich creation,
Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul--
'Tis but the faint and far reverberation
Of that great tune to which the planets roll!”
“And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.”
Source: The island race
“And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.”
“And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.”
“And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.”
Source: Juliet: A Novel
“And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.”
“And whether you fall in or dive in, it’s good to get wet now and again. If you never got wet, you’d never learn how to swim.”
Source: Happy Jack
“And whether you've had a good day or a bad day - whether you feel okay with how ya life is going or you been thinking a little too much lately about warshin' your mouth out with a revolver - something about the fact that the damn song exists and the guy in it loved that lady his whole life makes you feel more resolved. Shew, goddamn! We need a beer.”
Source: The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
“And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”
“And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.”
“And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
“And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?”
Source: Beast Machine
“And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.”
Source: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Science Fiction Stories
“And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast.”
Source: Still Alice
“And while a difficult past may seem at first to hamper our living our life's purpose, sometimes it serve the purpose, too. Or it is the purpose—to fully experience and understand a certain kind of human problem.”
Source: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child.”
“And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.”