A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.”
“Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.”
“Are men spoilt as children? Are they overindulged by their mothers and society into thinking they are justified in constantly centring their suffering? Why is everyone doing so much work on toxic masculinity and male mental health and barely any on women's?”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?”
“Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)
“Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?”
Source: Thirst: Poems
“Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“Are my efforts driven by the need to win at all cost, or am I inspired by the desire to hold onto my integrity despite the cost? For I would be wise to realize that exercising the former will cost me both the former and the latter.”
“are my light and you gide my way”
“Are my own thoughts bad?”
Source: Hiding Behind A Mask
“Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.”
Source: Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
“Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.”
Source: Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter
“Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?”
“Are not beauty and delicacy the same?”
Source: Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics
“Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?”
Source: The Language of Fashion
“Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.”
“Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?”
Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
“Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage
Lusts, as earths honour was to them?”
Source: Donne: Poems
“Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.”
“Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.”
“Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?”
Source: Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician
“Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.”
“Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.”
“Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?”
“Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?”
Source: Writings
“Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?”
“Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?”
“Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?”
Source: In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way
“Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?”
“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?”
“Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)”
Source: Any human heart
“Are our lives like car-worn ruts
In the face of the ground
Created through habitual use
And so set in place that they dictate
An unalterable course of drudgery,
Complaints, and same 'ol same 'ol,
Which if bucked threatens our security?
That is one long sentence, isn't it?
You can change it.”
“Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?”
“Are our minds bound by the limits of the language they are exposed to?”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?”
Source: A World of Difference
“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”
“Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.”
“Are people being the least you expect of them, or the best they expect themselves to be?”
“Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?”
“Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.”
“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”
“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.”
“Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?”
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.”
Source: Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
“Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness