A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down. This is fantasy at its best.”
“Angels, inasmuch as they come from the Throne Room of the Thrice-holy God, usher us into the presence of God once removed and such encounters with God are more powerful and overwhelming than ordinary moments with God.”
“Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”
“Angels, pixies, faerie dust Treading love and living lust.”
“Angels, please help me remember to direct blessings and prayers to everyone I meet today. Please send extra healing energy through me to all my relationships. I ask that each encounter I have bring gifts to everyone involved.”
“Angels, we have grown apart.”
“Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.”
“Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.”
Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel
“Anger - use it, but don't lose it!”
“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever." [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
“Anger... agony... so familiar emotions.”
“Anger alone is not going to be enough. You deserve a nominee who tells you exactly, "Here's what we're going to do," and outlines that. So you know what you're getting. So there's some level of accountability here. So my campaign is about this. We are very realistic about our challenges right now in this country.”
“Anger and aggressive behavior create a combative environment and temporarily reduces one’s ability to utilize their intellectual capacity.”
“Anger and anger can not solve any problem.”
“Anger and animosity cannot enshrine what was once wonderful...”
Source: Vindication Across Time
“Anger and arrogance are defensive mechanisms that preclude self-evaluation. Humility is necessary for a person to step outside his or her own skin and objectively appraise oneself.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger or bitterness.”
“Anger and bitterness can be like weeds. If you let them grow, pretty soon they take over and there ain't room for nothing else.”
Source: A Heart Full of Hope: An Addy Classic (2)
“Anger and comedy are really connected.”
“Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.”
Source: Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel
“Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.”
“Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.”
Source: Yes Please
“Anger and emotional pain are good things," ... "They show that we are still alive. That we still care.”
Source: One by One
“Anger and even fury. I have no other motivation. Anger about the senseless distraction. The only thing that keeps me going is anger. I don't have any love in me at all. I hate community. Two things make me furious. Spiritualism, and community. People who talk about community want to manage other people. I grew up in a village. And people say that's a community, but it isn't. It's a lot of individuals, following the rules. And spiritualism, spiritual people are often very greedy, avaricious, and waste a hell of a lot of time. Nobody deserves what they are promised by spiritual people. And some people promise them eternal life. I think it's a horrific punishment to get eternal life. Ordinary people should never have such punishment visited on them”
“Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.”
“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.”
Source: Tarzan of the Apes
“Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.”
Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.”
Source: My Spiritual Journey
“Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.”
“Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.”
Source: Boy Toy
“Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.”
Source: Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare
“Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.”
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”
“anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.”
Source: Works
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
“Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.”
“anger and jeaously are first cousins!”
“Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given,
That brought into this world a world of woe,
Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery,
Death's harbinger.”
Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton
“Anger and shame are often vilified, and not without reason. But as challenging as they can be, when we refuse to feel them at all, things can get even worse.”
“Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.”
Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 1
“Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.”
Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
“Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.”
“Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.”
“Anger arises,
Notice it, breathe in, breathe out,
Anger falls away
Worry arises,
Notice it, breathe in, breathe out,
Worry falls away
As peace arises,
Notice it, breathe in, breathe out,
Peace too falls away”
Source: 17: Haiku Poems
“Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Anger as well as love casts out fear.”
“Anger assists hands however weak.”
“Anger assists hands however weak.
[Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]”