A Quotes
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“Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.”
“Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.”
“Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.”
“Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.”
“Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.”
Source: Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
“Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.”
“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”
Source: The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
“Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.”
“Anyone who thinks it’s funny to name their network "Tom’sHugeEtc" is going to think it’s funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.”
“Anyone who thinks life is boring hasn't lived”
“Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.”
Source: Network Effect
“Anyone who thinks money can't buy happiness has never owned a cat [or any pet].”
“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”
“Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can.”
“Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.”
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
“Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”
Source: A Year Down Yonder
“Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.”
Source: Life Together
“Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
“Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.”
“Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.”
“Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.”
“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”
“Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.”
“Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how many miles of unspoiled Welsh countryside were disfigured to create the largest industrial site in Britain: all to "save" annually less than a quarter of the CO₂ emissions from a single jumbo jet.”
“Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.”
“Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
“Anyone who thinks there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans is a dingdong, Lots of people generalize that they're the same because they both pander to corporate interests. It's true: we live in a plutocracy condoned by a totally ignorant public...I'm not saying Democrats are perfect, but I think there are a lot of good, well-meaning people trapped in the system
(2002 interview in Attitude)”
“Anyone who thinks they can get in to politics to be of genuine service to mankind is simply kidding themselves. They'll never be permitted to rise within the system, and if they do, as soon as their true intentions become clear, they'll be disposed of.. JFK was proof of that..”
“Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous”
“Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.”
“Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.”
“Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.”
“Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.”
“Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.”
“Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner”
“Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon the outlawing of the cross-bow by Papal authority. Setting up the machinery for international law and order must surely precede disarmament. The Wild West did not abandon its shooting irons till after sheriffs and courts were established.”
“Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.”
“Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy.”
Source: Karma
“Anyone who thought time healed all wounds must have sustained only the most minor lacerations.”
Source: Grave Maurice, The
“Anyone who thought women were softer, or calmer, or gentler had obviously never visited Edge: home of vindictive females.”
Source: The Falcon in the Barn
“Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.”
Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion
“Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.”
“Anyone who treats me kind and loves unreservedly,
I consider my family”
“Anyone who treats me kind and loves unreservedly,
I consider them my family”
“Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.”
“Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.”