A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?”
Source: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
“Are those chocolate chip?'' Cole reaches her first and claims one.
''Oh, my godness.'' Nana sets the tray aside and coos the guy. ''Cole, dear, you have a boulder-size knot on your jaw.''
''River did it.'' Cole smirks at the guy. ''And he insulted my mom. And my dad.''
''River Marks.'' Nana shakes her head, as if her heart is acually breaking. ''How could you be so rough? And so insensitive!''
River glares at Cole before bowing his head. ''I'm sorry, Nana.''
''The human body is like a flower. Treat it well, and it will bloom.'' She approaches the ring and extends two cookies. River and I accept with eager thanks. ''Let's be kind to each other and keep our punches away from the face and groin.'' ''Yes, ma'am,'' we say in unison. Then of course, we devour the offering as if we've never tasted sugar.
''Good, good.'' She brushes the crumbs from her fingers. ''I'll leave you kids to your practice.'' She kisses Ali, then Cole, and leaves.
''Are you a rose?'' River sneers at Cole. ''Or a lilly?''
''Orchid. And your jealousy is showing.'' Cole responds.”
Source: A Mad Zombie Party
“Are those conspirators that you spy through your window or is it a mirror reflecting the chattering parasites in your mind?”
“Are those the Edible Undies cupcakes?” one of the women in the kitchen asked.
“They’re the Nipple Lickers,” Kimmie answered. “Without the nipples.”
“I heard you perfected the Sex on a Peach cupcakes,” another feminine voice said.
“Can you squeeze me in for a double order of Spank Me Strawberries the weekend before Knot Fest?”
Source: Sugared
“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”
Source: This Lullaby
“Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.”
“Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?”
“Are UAPs (Unexplained Aerial Phenomena, the more precise name for what was erstwhile called UFOs) to be blamed on a technological-advanced interstellar society? Time travelers? Dimensional visitors? The fae folk in shiny metal suits?”
Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
“Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Are warchildren so frightening? Are we not human, too?”
Source: A Canticle for the Fallen
“Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?”
“Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
“Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.”
“Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?”
“Are we above or is just another story?
Is it human nature?
Is it just a norm?
Is it segregation causing these deadly wars?
Is poverty leading us to the stagnant sea of prostitution?
Is the pauperism playing a role in tarnishing our image?
Is paucity injecting a lethal poison in our morals? Is penury eating civilization and destroying families?
Is the prison meant for classes in the society?
Is bribery a new Godly law?
Are drugs manufactured for us to numb the pain? Are we scared of reality?
Is it true that fathers are disappearing in the society podium?
Is it true that the lack of manhood is the root of all question marks?
Is it true that the adequate fathers in the society are destroying the sanity of children?
Is it true that our uncontrollable passions are born because we lack a muse”
“Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.”
“Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?”
“Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?”
“Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.”
“Are we all just actors, performing some unbound art form for God, the audience of space?”
Source: Shark Heart
“Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Are we all just satellites?”
“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.”
“Are we all ready? (Deimos) (Letting out a blood-chilling war cry, he and the rest of the Dolophoni ran through the caverns.) I hate their dramatics…and their decibel level. (M'Adoc)”
“Are we all urns of the same comet’s ☄️ ruins.
Or
Successors of the same tree growing in different soils”
“Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.”
“Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?”
Source: Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
“Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?”
“Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been looking for. The fact that we have an ongoing dialogue with the universe is proof enough that there is "something" out there.”
Source: The Art of the Moment: Simple Ways to Get the Most from Life
“Are we always our mistakes? Does anything we do heal them?”
Source: Salvage
“Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change”
“Are we as a species evolving toward the best in ourselves or the worst? Let's not lose sight of who we are and who we wish to be.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?”
Source: Failure: The Back Door to Success
“Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?”
Source: Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001
“Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”
“Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Are we being good ancestors?”
“Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?”
Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters
“Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Are we brave enough to realize that we are entirely unable to achieve and subsequently sustain that for which we passionately dream? And are we sufficiently humble to acknowledge those limitations so that God might have space to expand our dreams leagues beyond the scope of our imagination while concurrently sustaining them in the expanding? For these things are the essential hallmarks of the great nation which we persistently and vigorously aspire to be.”
“Are we capable of bringing the word of God into the environment in which we live? Do we know how to speak of Christ, of what he represents for us, in our families, among the people who form part of our daily lives? Faith is born from listening, and is strengthened by proclamation.”
“Are we changing as fast as the world around us?”
Source: The Future of Management
“Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.”
“Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?”
“Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.”
“Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?”
“Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.”
“Are we doing for the gamblers what they must do for themselves? Are we accepting behavior that is unacceptable? Are we taking responsibility which is not ours to take? Are we shirking our responsibilities to self and others? Are we in a state of denial about the reality of our situation? Are we continually reacting to the gamblers, or are we taking our own appropriate actions?”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition