A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.”
“Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.”
“Anything that is worth being written on pretty paper is worth being written on ugly paper.”
“Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.”
“Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.”
“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.”
“Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.”
“Anything that isn't writing is easy”
“Anything that Jack and Abby Irene could not manage together might just as likely be too much for Sebastien.”
Source: New Amsterdam
“Anything that just adds information you can't use is plain dangerous. Anyway, there's too much of everything of this kind, that's come home to me, too much history and culture to keep track of, too many details, too much news, too much example, too much influence, too many guys who tell you to be as they are, and all this hugeness, abundance, turbulence, Niagara Falls torrent. Which who is supposed to interpret? Me? I haven't got that much head to master it all. I get carried away. It doesn't give my feelings enough of a chance if I have to store up and become like an encyclopedia. Why, just as a question of time spent in getting prepared for life, look! a man could spent forty, fifty, sixty years like that inside the walls of his own being. And all high conversation would take place within those walls. And all achievement would stay within those walls. And all glamour too. And even hate, monstrousness, enviousness, murder, would be inside them. This would be only a terrible, hideous dream about existing. It's better to dig ditches and hit other guys with your shovel than die in the walls.”
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
“Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.”
“Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.”
“Anything that kills hope is a sin”
Source: I Was Here
“Anything that liberates is not without risk.”
Source: Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
“Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.”
“Anything that lives here has to be just as harsh and determined as the sun, born of a fiery stubbornness that is either extremely brave or extremely stupid.”
Source: Ice Like Fire
“Anything that looks good makes you feel better.”
“Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.”
“Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.”
“Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop
“Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.”
“Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.”
Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel
“Anything that makes me weak, even if it is my love, I will destroy it.”
“Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.”
“Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.”
“Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
Source: From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission to the West. Includes Reports of His Lectures and Replies to Addresses
“Anything that makes you distinct from others is precisely who you’re here to be. Not someone who ‘fits in’ with everyone else”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“Anything that makes you feel alive is worth devoting time to.”
“Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.”
“Anything that makes you forget the wounds in your heart does a sacred job!”
“Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.”
Source: The Tear Collector
“Anything that makes you laugh, giggle or smile.. Do it again..”
“Anything that makes your mother cry is fun”
Source: Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be With an Oi
“Anything that mesmerizes you is the form of the devil from the apple of the Adam Eve to the music of the world”
“Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.”
“Anything that necessitates human interpretation is susceptible to errors.”
“Anything that occupies your mind is your occupation. For some people quarreling is an occupation. They fear losing it more than a job-goer fears losing job. Because emptiness of mind is scarier than emptiness of stomach.”
“Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.”
Source: Peace, Love And Healing
“Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.”
“Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.”
“Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.”
“Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.”
“Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.”
“Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.”
“Anything that provokes a visceral or spiritual response and ignites my senses. Whether it's listening to the ocean, dancing to a song I adore, feeling the wind across my face, sampling a fantastic new dish, or witnessing a phenomenal show, if I experience it before I can even think about it, it makes me come alive.”
“Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.”
“Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.”
“Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.”
Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking
“Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.”