A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Anyone who has grown mentally, physically, or spiritually knows that growth is not found in comfort.”
“Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.”
“Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.”
“Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself. It is a language specially designed to deceive the chance listener.”
Source: The Swoop! and Other Stories
“Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.”
“Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.”
“Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Anyone who has kids knows that children like to be around chickens, goats, whatever. My kid loves to go out and feed the chickens and collect the eggs. It's a nice way of living.”
“Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.”
“Anyone who has lived
Is an historian & an artifact,
For they hold all their time within them.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.”
“Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”
Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
“anyone who has lost somethingthey thought was theirs forever. Finally, comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if to nothing belongs to me there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine. It's best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life.”
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”
“Anyone who has mastered a weapon – truly mastered it – is a humble man or woman.”
Source: The Crippled God
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.”
“Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”
“Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.”
“Anyone who has not rowed in a really close Boat Race cannot comprehend the level of the pain.”
“Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.”
“Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.”
Source: A celebration of cats
“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...”
Source: Conduit: A Love Story Before During and After Life
“Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.”
“Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and anyone whose food exceeds his needs, let him share it with someone who does not have food.”
“Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.”
“Anyone who has read enough, explored enough and experienced enough, somewhere in his/ her life will realize that the life is repeating itself again and again and again. He/she will soon understand there is nothing new to discover, all quests of human life have been experience and discovered in the past and all we do to play the game over and over to gain a different result, like an idiot who watches movie several time and hope to see a different ending. In such age, people no to remain enthusiastic, they need to still be excited about the story, which they have heard more than millions of times. Hence, intellectuals and creators create new toys for them. The toys that practically has the same purpose and affect the same result, but ordinary human does not need to know that. They need to be interested to play, because if we stop, the world will stop, and then the age of nothingness will end. And we cannot let that happen can we?”
“Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.”
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”
“Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user”
“Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.”
“Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.”
“Anyone who has spent five seconds in my company, or two seconds in my bedroom knows that I am not a white supremacist.”
“Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.”
“Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.”
Source: Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910
“Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.”
“Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.”
“Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.”
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
“Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”
Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928
“Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.”
“Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.”
“Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.”
“Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.”
“Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian.”
“Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.”