A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?”
Source: Role Models
“Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?”
“Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.”
“Aren't most of you descended from pirates?”
“Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.”
“Aren't rumors great. Anyone can start them. They're a wonderful way to put out feelers. It's like getting the benefits of a publicist without paying one.”
“Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by.”
“Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.”
“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.”
“aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos?”
“Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?”
“Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.”
“Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.”
“Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?”
“Aren't we in the midst of a blitzkrieg, for a lack of a better term, of informational warfare conducted by Russian trolls under the command of Vladimir Putin?”
“Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?”
“Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?”
“Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?”
“Aren't we taught as kids that we're beautiful because we feel beautiful and not because someone else says so? You don't look like the model on the magazine cover but you can still be beautiful, so I can't say I really want to change anything. I'm happy with the flaws I have.”
“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”
“Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.”
“Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?”
“Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?”
“Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?”
“Aren't you glad that God doesn't give you only that which you remember to thank him for?”
Source: Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)
“Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.”
“Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?”
“Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.”
Source: High Five
“Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?”
“aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“Aren't you, uh..." Clary searched for the right word. "Reproducing?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary
“Arendt's laughter was the laughter of incongruence, the laughter that erupts when facing absurdity, a pause to catch one's breath. We happen upon something that makes no sense, we laugh, and respond with wit. For while laughter is a re-action, irony and wit are (spoken or written) actions. Irony expresses the unwillingness or the inability to put up with nonsense.
Wit arises when people can easily and quickly see similarities between dissimilar things.”
Source: Unlearning with Hannah Arendt
“Arendt's point is rather that throughout modern German history Jews were pawns, more or less and almost necessarily willing pawns, in the game of power politics. They were used by the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the liberals, and discarded by each of those opposed factions when their usefulness, which was financial, was either used up or no longer deemed socially desirable.”
Source: The Jewish Writings
“Arent people supposed to do movies so that they can get girls?”
“Aren’t we all animals at the end of the day? I like to show that side of me, but in a respectful way. I’m just expressing myself. It’s all about feeling good and confident about yourself, and not letting anyone else tell you what you can or can't do.”
“Aren’t you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children’s Place at your age? I’m sure there’s some third-grader dying to know who bought the last navy I-sore shirt. (Nekoda)”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“Aren’t you afraid one of them will betray you? Take it all away? (Shahara) I’m sure one will eventually, but that’s the least of what keeps me up at night. Trust me, there are a lot worse things in life than loosing a few credits. (Syn)”
Source: The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice
“Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no legal claim on me. And I’m no longer a kid learning my powers. I’m a full-grown man with an ax I want to bury in the forehead of anyone dumb enough to come at me. I defy the bastards to try something now. (Nero)”
“Aren’t you ever satisfied? I swear if I were mortal, I’d be limping from our last go-round. If not dead. We really need to find you a hobby other than jumping on top of me. (Acheron)”
Source: Devil May Cry
“Aren’t you forgetting something?” – Acheron “What?” – Artemis “Your payment.” – Acheron “The happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough. I only wish you’d been there when your daughter was born, but that was my fault. I’ve had a lifetime of joy, hugs and love from her and you missed all of that because of my stupidity and fear. His life is my gift to both of you. Let’s hope the future is much kinder to all of us than the past has been.” – Artemis”
“Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?”
“Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it.”
“Aren’t you going to say, I told you so?” Hadrian whispered. “What would be the point in that?” “Oh, so you’re saying that you’re going to hang on to this and throw it at me at some future, more personally beneficial moment?” “I don’t see the point in wasting it now, do you?”
Source: The Crown Conspiracy
“Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.”
“Ares Alsford might have been God sent in this world, but together we were Hellbound. A recipe for disaster so good, you enjoyed every bite on your way to ruin.”
Source: Lick of Fire