A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.”
“Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.”
“Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.”
Source: No Safe Place
“Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.”
“Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.”
“Any guy that refers to dating women as the hunt or being on the prowl should be evaluated for a number of conditions.”
“Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.”
“Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.”
Source: My life
“Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.”
“Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.”
Source: The Law of Success
“Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.”
“Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.”
Source: Healology
“Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day.”
“Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.”
Source: Inspiration 2 Smile
“Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.”
“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.”
“Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.”
“Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.”
“Any healthy relationship involves work, discipline, motivation, purpose, intent, and desire.”
“Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.”
“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.”
“Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?”
Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices
“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
Source: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
“Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.”
“Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?”
“Any homicide detective who has ever tried to cope with the anguish of parents who realize intuitively that their children are dead, but have not even the faint comfort of knowing where their bodies are, can attest to the fact that this is the worst. One weary investigator commented to me, "It's rough. It's damn rough, when you have to tell them that you've found a body, that it's their kid. But it's never over for the parents who just don't know. They can't really have a funeral, they can't know that their children aren't being held and tortured someplace, they can't face their grief and get it over. Hell, you never get over it, but, if you know, you can pick your life up again, somehow.”
Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
“Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.”
“Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.”
“Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1959
“Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.”
Source: Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
“Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.”
“Any horse can win on any given day.”
“Any hot plans for the weekend, Peabody?”
“My usual, flicking off men like flies, breaking hearts, crushing souls.”
Source: Vengeance in Death
“Any hour can be your final hour, so make every hour count.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Any hour of the day, any place, any person, is a subject for narrative if the narrator is capable of observing and illuminating all these collective elements by exploring their interior value.”
“any house they’d chosen would have become the very thing they sought”
Source: Magic Hour
“Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.”
“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.”
Source: In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
“Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.”
“Any human being has private thoughts.”
“Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.”
“Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.”
“Any human being, who has given up the power of listening, critical thinking, and learning beyond what they already know, is en route to de-evolving into an ape. The only difference is that apes are cute...”
“Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.”
“Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her felicity. Such moments come rarely in any life, but when they do come they are inexpressibly wonderful - as if the finite were for a second infinity - as if humanity were for a space uplifted into divinity - as if all ugliness had vanished, leaving only flawless beauty.”
Source: Emily Climbs