A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.”
“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
Source: Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)
“And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.”
“And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.”
“And you cannot build a home for your worth inside of another being.”
Source: Rhythms and Roads
“And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders”
Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays
“And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”
“And you chose to fight for Artemis instead, what kind of stupid are you? (Jeff)”
Source: A Hard Day's Night Searcher
“and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you”
“And you consider yourself as what, some sort of Count of Monte Cristo?"
He gave a nonchalant shrug. "Not particularly, though the book is a favorite of mine."
Farah frowned. "I thought you said you couldn't read."
That Dorian Blackwell could laugh at a time like this astounded her. But he did. The sound so devoid of true mirth, it caused goose pimples to rise on her skin and her nipples to tighten painfully. It was a dark sound, like the rest of him, and it washed over her with chilling totality.”
Source: The Highwayman
“And you couldn't say 'vagina' without giggling. If you can't say it, you dont get to go near it”
Source: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
“And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.”
“And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.”
“And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye.”
“And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.”
“And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear."
"Gently with the butter, Tuppence.”
Source: Partners in Crime
“And you don’t even need to say anything. I’m screwed up. I don’t know how any of this works anymore than you do. But I do believe you’re worth every second it would take to figure it out,” Mason said, a smile taking over his features.”
Source: Run
“And you don't give a damn for Israel's welfare—admit it! You don't give a damn about their security—go on, admit it! All that matters to you is your scoop, and the boss's congratulations, and if that piece brought you a Pulitzer Prize you jump for joy, and if Israel had to suffer for it, what the hell! Do I overstate the case?”
“Yes, you overstate the case, damn right you overstate it! I love my work. I love it passionately, And not because of the rewards but because it's my weapon! I like to think that because of me men and women will be a little happier and their lives a little easier.”
“You worry about everybody in the world except your own brothers and sisters in Israel!”
“That's a lie!”
“Then prove it!”
“How do you want me to prove it? By concealing what happens there? By accepting Injustice there and passing over it in silence?”
“And the injustices perpetrated against Israel? You don't care about them? The terrorist raids? The assassination of children? The murder of innocent civilians?
“The paper we work for talks about them all the time, and often on the front page. Don't you think the Palestinians’ fate deserves a little attention too?”
“Ah, there it is—finally admitting it's the Palestinians you care about.”
“No. It's the truth I care about. And I love Israel as much as you do.”
“But you're prepared to do them harm and put them at risk.”
“No! I'm prepared to keep them from doing harm to themselves!”
“Oh, magnificent, Tamar! You're going to help Israel in spite of itself! Bravo!”
Source: The Forgotten
“And you don't have to cry about that boy. Boys are silly. The first thing you need is a best friend.”
Source: Girl in the Blue Coat
“And you don't have to cry about that boy. Boys are silly. The first thing you need is a best friend. (p. 166)”
Source: Girl in the Blue Coat
“And you? Don't you have dreams now?'
'I do,' he said bitterly. 'But seldom since we crossed the Yaruga. And I remember nothing after waking. Something has ended in me, Cahir. Something has burned out. Something has ruptured in me . . .'
'Never mind, Geralt. I shall dream for both of us.”
Source: Wieża Jaskółki
“And you don't care that I'm your brother," he said. "I know how you felt about Jace, even when you thought he was your brother. You can't lie to me." "Jace is better than you." "No one's better than me.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“And you don't ever have to worry about what I feel. The way I feel about you won't change. You can do whatever you like to me. You could turn this town to dust, burn the woods until they were cinders, you could cut out my heart. It wouldn't matter. It would not change a thing." "What if I ate a baby?" Jared's mouth curved up at the corners, slow and not cruel at all. "I'm sure you'd have a good reason," he said.”
Source: Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)
“And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.”
“And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.”
“And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.”
“And you dropt, lost,
When something broke--
And let you from a Dream”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“And you each gentle animal
In confidence may bind,
And make them follow at your call,
If you are always kind.”
Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
“And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order." I kept my voice mild. "I suppose I won't be needing my job, my house, or my clothes anymore." "I didn't say that. Although let me get back to you on the clothes. It's still under consideration.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.”
“And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?”
“And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.”
“And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.”
“And you find some way to survive
And you find out you don't have to be happy at all..
To be happy you're alive.”
“And you get into that sort of cannibalistic feeling - all you want to do is go out there and, like I say, kill somebody. I'm going to get him. I'm going to kill'em. Not like you are going to put them into the ground after, but you just want to kill a guy.”
“And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.”
“And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.”
“And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.”
“And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.”
Source: Desolation Angels
“And you have no idea what surviving has cost me. My bruises might not
look like yours but they are there.”
Source: Yellow Wife
“And you have nothing on him? Is he at least local? Does he have an accent?”
“Yeah, about that. I never heard this accent before.”
“Really.”
“It’s like... Southern with a curlicue.”
“What?” Ty was laughing, but Nick didn’t find his frustration all that amusing.
“I’m serious. It’s like yours, but not. Like he came over from England and put the two accents together. I...”
“Can you mimic him?”
“No! I’ve tried, and my tongue does not make that sound with an R.”
“Your tongue can’t make any kind of an R!”
“Whatever, hillbilly.”
Source: Cross & Crown
“And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.”
Source: The Whisperer
“And you have to believe me when I tell you that no one could ever be as beautiful as you are at this very moment, because I could never want anyone more than I want you right now.”
Source: Soccer Sweetheart
“And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.”
“And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. “ The Prince, XVIII, 5”
Source: The Prince
“And you haven’t got a ‘pause’ button, have you? You are just uncontrollable!”
Source: Fateful Italian Passion
“And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“And you know how it is with things that mean a lot to you. They get heavy. They drive you crazy. They make life worth living, they make life unliveable, you can't stay, you can't go, there's not enough tequila in all of Mexico to straighten out your mind, years go by and nothing ever changes.
This face is one that will make you weak forever.”
Source: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
“And you know, I fell in love with you, fully aware that we might never meet again—just like someone who falls for a fictional character in a novel they read long ago, carrying that love in their heart despite the distance of reality.”