A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.”
“Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.”
“Any career if you're that passionate about it and you really want to do it, then you should go for it, absolutely. I will say acting is one of the hardest businesses, from what I've been told, even though it's the only business I've been doing my whole life. But knowing other people trying to break into it, I hear it's one of the hardest businesses to break into.”
“Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.”
“Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.”
“Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.”
“Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.”
“Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.”
“Any central bank should only be in charge of liquidity. Solvency is a matter for the treasury.”
“Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble.”
“Any challenge can be met with the correct instrument, you see. But it is a burden. Strings bind me, just as they bind her.”
Source: Winds of Strife
“Any chance beats no chance.”
Source: Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
“Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?” “About as likely as me doing it.” Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. “I put him at the top of the list.”
“Any chance I’d get to see you in that bikini?”
Zahara punched him in the arm. “No more talk of me in anything remotely skimpy or I’m gonna drop-kick you, got it?” ~Zahara and Bryan”
Source: Lucifer
“Any chance I get, I will dance.”
“Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.”
“Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at him. “You mean all those pieces of strawberry pie that you ate for lunch weren't enough?” “I’m a growing boy,” Finn said in a sincere tone. “I need my vitamins.” Bria snorted. “The only thing that’s growing on you, Lane, is your ego.” Finn sidled up to my sister and gave her a dazzling smile. “Well, other things of mine also tend to swell up in your presence, detective.”
“Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.”
“Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.”
“Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.”
Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage
“Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.”
“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.”
“Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.”
Source: Politics
“Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.”
“Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.”
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“Any changes that I made to my line, I asked if I could make them, which I do in every movie. So far everybody's been gracious enough to say yes. The only improvising I do is in the movies I do with Chris Guest, which is what we do.”
“Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you”
“Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.”
“Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.”
“Any charitable act is love in motion, and love needs no publicity because love just is.”
“Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.”
“Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination.”
“Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.”
Source: The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy
“Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.”
Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it”
“Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”
“Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.”
“Any child that wants special attention is arrogant”.”
“Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.”
“Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.”
Source: The child in the family
“Any choice they gave you was nothing but an illusion meant to make you bear the weight of the guilt, so they didn't have to.”
Source: Iron Widow
“Any Christian constitutionalist who retreats from this battle jeopardizes his life here and hereafter. Seldom has so much responsibility hung on so few, so heavily; but our numbers are increasing, and we who have been warned have a responsibility to warn our neighbor.”
Source: An enemy hath done this
“Any Christian who claims that the path of the spirit and the one towards abundance aren’t one and the same, is ignorant of his ignorance, ignorant about his bible, lacks the most vital laws on the meaning of spirituality, and is being led astray by his own enemy, for the enemy he claims to oppose lives within him.”
“Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.”
“Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.”
Source: The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power