A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Are you a serious player, or just someone larking and larping around, and trying on different dresses as you eat your vegan pseudo-burgers – the meat without the meat, the thing without the thing? Citizens, do you want the revolution without the revolution? Well?”
Source: Without the Mob, There Is No Circus
“Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!”
“Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?”
“Are you a spectator or a player? It's time to be a real player, a partner, and a life changer.”
“Are you a stalker or something?”
“I’ve been called that a time or two, oddly enough.”
My jaw unhinged.
“And it’s funny, considering who the last person was to ask me that.” His arresting features tensed. “A relative of yours. A cousin, I guess.” His lips pursed thoughtfully. “Or maybe a sister? Honestly, I have no idea how that works out, but it’s about a thousand different kinds of disturbing.”
Source: The Return
“Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.”
“Are you a student of Shakespeare?"
"He's been dead a long time, so not precisely, but who isn't?" she said.”
Source: Down in the Valley
“Are you a super-spreader?”
“Are you a terrorist? Or just an idiot?”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。1
“Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment”
“Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
“Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?”
“Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.”
“Are you a victim of disability fraud?”
“Are you a victim of workers compensation fraud?”
“Are you a virgin?” I asked, “A virgin who’s gonna tear out my heart?”
“Yes … no … wait.” She looked at me. “I’m not going to rip out your heart.”
“Thanks for clearing that up,” I said
“Is that okay with you?” she asked softly.
“Okay with me?”,“No, it’s not okay at all,” I replied.
“Why not?” She looked down at her toes.
“I want you to rip out my heart.”
She smiled, pressed her hand to my chest, and said, “I could never do that.”
You already have, I thought as I took her hand in mine”
Source: Take Me There
“Are you a winner if you cheat?”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Are you a witch?”
Source: Finding Cinderella
“Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"”
“Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.”
Source: When Everyone Shines But You - Saying Goodbye To I'm Not Good Enough
“Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are in pain; be kind even when your life seems to be falling apart around you. Be humble not only when you succeed but also when you fail. Kindness in word and action, and humble in thought and belief. It is important to not only say and do the ‘right’ thing, it is important to also think and believe it - which is being genuine in nature of peace embodiment.”
“Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.”
“Are you accusing a god spying on you, Megara?" Hera asked.
"Accusing? No," Meg said. "Guessing? Yes. It's what I would be doing if I had a son who almost renounced his heritage to date a mortal. I'd want to know if she was worth all the fuss." Meg shrugged. "Call it a hunch.”
Source: A Twisted Tale Anthology
“Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley”
“Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"
"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."
-Conversation between Majid and Mathias”
Source: The Lion and the Rose
“Are you afraid?
Are you?
His violet eyes caught mine. So few stars now shone within them. 'Yes,' he breathed. Not for myself. For all of you.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Are you afraid because it's dark? Don't be afraid, relax, even when you're walking in pitch darkness, believe in the light, it will find you! Suddenly you'll see a firefly, or the moonlight will appear, or a lightning will strike and light up the whole place, a shooting star will fall, you'll come across someone carrying a candle!”
“Are you afraid?”
“ Everyone is afraid”.”
“Are you afraid?” he asked moving his chair directly in front of her. “Should I be?” she answered getting her courage back. She stood about to dart away, but Vaselik stopped her, took her hands and studied them intently.”
Source: Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle
“Are you afraid?"
"I don't think so. I fear nothing when I'm doing right.”
Source: Kate and the Beanstalk
“Are you afraid?” “No,” she replied. “I am not afraid.”
Source: East
“Are you afraid now?" said Gregor.
"At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."
Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer.
"And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?”
Source: Gregor the Overlander
“Are you afraid of cemeteries? Yes, you can be! But you know, I think the cemetery is also afraid of you, because you are life, you are not like death, which has no other ability than to destroy! You have creative powers, you have the potential to carry life to eternity, so the cemetery is also afraid of you! You whistle in fear when you visit it, but it whistles silently in fear when you come!”
“Are you afraid?'
'Of course.'
'Good. Fear will make you fight. Don't let a silly little shit like Turosa get the better of you, whoever his mother is.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Are you afraid of dying?"
"I was at first, maybe I still am a little bit. But it's not death that scares me so much as not being alive anymore. It's missing all the things that I would have seen if I hadn't gotten AIDS. Things like my daughter's graduation, her wedding, my grandchildren. I'll never see those things, and that makes me sad.”
Source: Widow, Virgin, Whore
“Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing. [He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?”
Source: Grimspace
“Are you afraid of heights?"
"Only when I'm on them!”
Source: Shantaram
“Are you afraid of me? I'm not afraid of you. You can't do anything to me that you haven't already done. But I'm only learning everything I can do to you.”
Source: Shadow Play
“Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.”
Source: Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly
“Are you Afraid of Sadness?"
In an old interview
with a famous and talented Iraqi actress,
the interviewer asked her:
“Why are you afraid of sadness?”
The actress responded:
“I am afraid of it because it quickly takes you to a place from which you can never return.”
And exactly as she was answering,
an insightful viewer could notice
a sadness on her face indicating
that the famous and talented actress herself
wasn’t really present in the interview
for sadness had long taken her with no return…
[Original poem published in Arabic on November 19, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
“Are You Afraid of Sadness?”
In an old interview with a famous and talented Iraqi actress, the interviewer asked, 'Why are you afraid of sadness?'
The actress responded, 'I am afraid of it because it quickly takes you to a place from which you can never return.'
And exactly as she answered, insightful viewers could feel the sadness on her face, indicating that the actress herself wasn’t truly present in the interview— sadness had long since taken her, with no return.
November 19, 2023”
Source: سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
“Are you afraid of the dark?"
I want to say I am but am too afraid to say so.”
Source: Foster
“Are you afraid of the future? That is funny because future does not exist yet! Future is not even a shadow, because shadow exists! Let go your fear and concentrate on the present time!”
“Are you afraid of the good you might do?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Are you afraid of your own shadow?”
Source: Our Dark Duet
“Are you afraid that you're hurting your national auto industry? - Environmental protection isn't a burden. It's innovation. Protecting a backward industry is no way to promote innovation. The government's role is to set standards and then ensure fair competition in the market. You win the market through fair competition.”
“Are you afraid, Tessa?”
Source: Before I Die
“Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.”