A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Any way to make a workout feel like playtime is great.”
“Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.”
“Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.”
“Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.”
“Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.”
“Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.”
Source: The Deep
“Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.”
Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel
“Any weapons or drugs, Mr. Hepp?” she asked.
“No. Of course not.”
She continued to look inside the car at the back seat. “What’s in the briefcase?”
Source: Full Moon Saturday Night
“Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.”
“Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.”
“Any who love Jesus will love others much more.”
“Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless”
“Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.”
“Any who stand in my way shall be cut down!”
“Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.”
Source: The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu
“Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Any wise man fears open spitefulness, whether it be in seriousness or in jest.”
Source: Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations
“Any wish fulfilled...for the right price.”
Source: Immoral Origins
“Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.”
“Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?”
“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”
Source: The mousetrap, & other plays
“Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.”
“Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.”
Source: The Art of Loving Intelligently:Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women in America
“Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he’s not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.”
“Any woman is sexual, absolutely.”
“Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.”
“Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.”
Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.”
“Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.”
“Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.”
“Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.”
“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.”
“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”
“Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.”
Source: On Beauty
“Any woman who’d ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul.”
Source: Disgrace
“Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.”
“Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.”
“Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.”
“Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.”
“Any woman who has ever tried will know without explanation what an unpalatable task it is to dismiss, even when she does not love him, a man who has all the natural and moral qualities she would desire, and only fails in the social. Would-be lovers are not so numerous, even with the best women, that the sacrifice of one can be felt as other than a good thing wasted, in a world where there are few good things.”
Source: The Trumpet-Major, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale
“Any woman who is currently with a man is with him partly because she loves the way he smells. And if we haven't smelled you for a day or two and then we suddenly are within inches of you, we swoon. We get light-headed. It's intoxicating. It's heady.”
“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
Source: The woman in white
“Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men.”
“Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.”
“Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.”
“Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.”
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”