A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Are you the assassin who wants Uncle Valek’s job?”
“Eventually, yes.” Onora considered the young girl. “Are you thinking of challenging me for it?”
“Oh, no. I’m not skilled enough,” Reema demurred.
But Onora was too smart to fall for it. “Uh-huh. From what I’ve been hearing, you could put the sass into assassin.”
Source: Dawn Study
“Are you (The Budda incarnate) who fought the Armies Of Heaven to a standstill on the banks of the Vadra ?”
Source: Lord of Light
“Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned?" Leo asked. "But you're a girl." "You're a girl," said the girl. "Excuse me?”
“Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.”
“Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“Are you the healing balm I need? I wondered.”
Source: Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
“Are you the new person drawn toward me?”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Are you the one who strives to brighten other people’s days or are you the one waiting for others to do that for you? These are choices that can and do make a huge difference in the value you bring to the table, personally and professionally.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.”
“Are you the owner of this car?" A cop has something you don't have, something you gave him earlier.
"No, I'm just delivering it to Oklahoma City for a lady. "
"Do you have plates for this car?" A cop needn't be vicious, but he can be so, safely.
"Just those stickers."
"Do you have the registration?" Presidents and premiers can annihilate millions, but only a cop can explain away your solitary murder.”
Source: Wall to Wall
“Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.”
“Are you the spiderman?" I asked, our breaths mingling, mouths inches apart.
"No, Lavinia." He shook his head then dipped closer to me. I was sure he would kiss me, but he skimmed his nose along my jaw until his lips brushed my ear. "You are," he grated, biting my lobe. "And I'm so fucking caught in your web.”
Source: Always Practice Safe Hex
“Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?”
Source: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword
“Are you the sum total of your worst acts?”
“Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.”
Source: Bitten
“Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?”
“Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.”
Source: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
“Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.”
Source: It's Not the End of the World
“Are you there? I call for you.
I've been calling your name,
Searching every place in my mind to find you,
I've lost count of the days, the hours, minutes, and seconds.
The world that looked so vast is now small and empty.
Did you take all the magic with you?
Or perhaps the world is in pain like my heart because it's lost your spark.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“Are you there?
I thought I felt you brush past me
while in-between dream and waking.
Are you the echo of light from a star long dead
or are you True North?”
Source: Drive Through the Night
“Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like to Drink and Stay Home.”
“Are you thinking of killing me, Zoya?"
"Yes."
"Your king wouldn't be pleased."
"I'm not going to do it," she lied. "I just enjoy thinking about it. It's soothing, like humming myself a little melody.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Are you this way with everyone you know? So abrupt and dismissive?"
"What do you care?" he sneered.
She exhaled forcefully, having lost all patience. "I care because I breathe and think and laugh and cry. I care because I'm alive. I suspect that you, Mr. Greycourt, have been dead for a very long time.”
Source: No Ordinary Duchess
“Are you threatening me?” He looked completely outraged at such a thing.
“You bet your incredibly attractive and probably hard enough to bounce a quarter off ass I am!” she snapped back.
An indescribable look flitted across his face. “You are the most irreverent woman I’ve ever met.”
“And you’re the handsomest man I’ve ever seen in my life, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to lick you!” she yelled.”
Source: It's All Greek to Me
“Are you threatening me, sir?” he said, so loudly that passersby actually turned to stare.
“Yes, I am,” said Mad-Eye, who seemed rather pleased that Uncle Vernon had grasped this fact so quickly.
“And do I look like the kind of man who can be intimidated?” barked Uncle Vernon.
“Well...” said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving magical eye. Uncle Vernon leapt backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. “Yes, I’d have to say you do, Dursley.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.”
Source: Sample of the CITYs
“Are you throwing darts at the challenges in your life? Hoping something sticks? Try using a laser instead! Choose the biggest challenge you have and take action as focused and precise as a laser. Darts can go anywhere, lasers only go where you aim them...”
Source: The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on their way! Knowing what others felt will give you a great power to complete your journey!”
“Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!”
“Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!”
“Are you tired of young, svelte protagonists with flowing locks, dangerous curves and green eyes? My heroine's a realistic middle-aged women with trick knees, love handles, kids, laugh lines that have laugh lines and wear plus sizes and they still have fantastic adventures!”
“Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.”
“Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace - they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship - they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?”
Source: The woman in white
“Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.”
“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.”
“Are you troubled by me making ye enjoy it?"
Claray flushed, but admitted honestly, "I was at first. But I've resigned meself to it."
"Resinged yerself?" he asked with concern. "Should I stop---?"
"Nay!" Claray interrupted quickly, and then scowled. "Do no' you dare stop. I love the pleasure ye give me, and if 'tis wrong, then I'll happily serve me time in hell fer it."
"Ye will, will ye?" he asked with a faint smile.
Claray nodded, and then added, "But I do' think the church is right about this. I love ye, and the loving is an expression of that. 'Tis beautiful and precious." Pausing, she smiled slightly, and added, "Besides, ye ordered me to enjoy it, and Father Cameron did make me vow to obey ye. I can hardly be punished fer keeping vows the church made me make."
The concern easing from his face, Conall chuckled and hugged her close. "I do love ye, Claray. Yer beautiful, and clever, and sure to drive me mad and scare me witless at times. But I'd have it no other way."
"Neither would I, husband," Claray murmured, hugging him back. "Neither would I.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“Are you troubled?" Moussa asked, his voice gentle with concern.
"No," she said. "I was only thinking of my mar- riage." It was true, so she didn't understand why she hated herself instantly for saying it. She thought Moussa's head jerked a little at the words. After that he was uncharacteristically quiet and for the first time in nearly four days they rode in a sad unnatural silence that was as suffocating as the desert heat. Suddenly each stride of the camel seemed interminable, and Daia didn't know what to do. One part of her wanted journey to end quickly, wanted to arrive in Abalessa where all the confusion might end. The rest of her, most of her, wanted their journey to last forever.”
Source: Empires of Sand by David Ball
“Are you truly dirty if you don't take a shower every day? No, but you feel that way. It's the same with running. Just like a shower, running is part of my daily life.”
“Are you truly doing what's best for the nation, what's best for the Army, what's best for your unit, and what's best for your soldiers and their families? Are you taking all of that into consideration, or are you looking at what makes you as an individual look the best?”
“Are you tryin' to defeat me by talking me to death?!' -- Peter Parker”
Source: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1
“Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”
“Are you trying to control and guide truth or are you allowing truth to control and guide you?”
“Are you trying to find out what the IQ of the society you live in is? Don't bother, just look at the results of the elections. If a society makes the right decision in the election, it means its IQ level is high! So, what is the right decision? If the government you have chosen has enriched your nation as a whole without harming other nations, if it has discarded armament and aimed at disarmament, if it has increased freedom, eliminated irrational belief systems and promoted reason and science, then the decision is very correct!”
“Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.”
“Are you trying to give the cats an agenda? Don't bother, they always have their own agenda!”