A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.”
“Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.”
Source: March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931
“Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.”
“Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!”
Source: Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel
“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.”
“Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.”
“Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.”
Source: Augustus
“Any last words?”
“Go to hell, you freaking…filthy…godforsaken…”
Our noses almost touch as he dips his head and brushes a strand of my hair behind my ear. “Angel, the word you’re looking for is pirate.”
Source: Neverland
“Any Latin dance, whether it be salsa, cha cha, samba, etc., is very sexy for me to see a woman do. Using your hips is the key.”
“Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.”
“Any law, however well meant as a law, which has become a bounty on unthrift, idleness, bastardy and beer-drinking, must be put an end to. In all ways it needs, especially in these times, to be proclaimed aloud that for the idle man there is no place in this England of ours. He that will not work, and save according to his means, let him go elsewhither; let him know that for him the Law has made no soft provision, but a hard and stern one; that by the Law of Nature, which the Law of England would vainly contend against in the long-run, he is doomed either to quit these habits, or miserably be extruded from this Earth, which is made on principles different from these. He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that. Would to heaven one could preach it abroad into the hearts of all sons and daughters of Adam, for it is a law applicable to all; and bring it to bear, with practical obligation strict as the Poor-Law Bastille, on all! We had then, in good truth, a 'perfect constitution of society;' and 'God's fair earth and Task-garden, where whosoever is not working must be begging or stealing,' were then actually what always, through so many changes and struggles, it is endeavouring to become.”
“Any law or process, aiming to ensure justice, needs to be simplified for the common man”
“Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.”
“Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.”
“Any leader has two jobs to do. To do what they are currently doing better and more efficiently (call this strengthening the core), and to do what they are not currently doing but will need to do in the future (call this creating the new).”
“Any leader should preach unity and diversity, not promote self-determination, segregation, separation, and divisiveness. Any solution that does not support unity is a future problem.”
“Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.”
“Any leader who cling on power is ready to be considered mean, during and after his departure.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.”
“Any leader who is serious about supporting their team and any organization that is serious about supporting their workforce need to shape and support a well-being culture.”
Source: A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Healthier, Happier, and More Resilient Workforce
“Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.”
“Any leadership that disempowers its followers cannot be entrusted to lead.”
“Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people will always find better ways to solve problems.”
“Any leadership that values the power of prayer and the wisdom of God, will achieve more if they diligently serve and pray.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple...when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.”
“Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework”
“Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.”
Source: Everglades
“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”
“Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.”
“Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense - that nobody can frighten me off from this thing. And no matter what happens, this is the validation of my life and action.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.”
Source: Gentleman's Agreement
“Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.”
“Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.”
Source: The Cloister Walk
“Any life, no matter how long or complex it may be, is made up essentially of a single moment—the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”
Source: The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969
“Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.”
Source: On Teaching and Writing Fiction
“Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.”
“Any life worth living is going to have risks”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”
Source: Aleph and other stories
“Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.”
“Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
Source: The Sound And The Fury
“Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz.”
“Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.”
“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”
Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“Any loss is a gain.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Any loss is a guarantee that something is being created.”