A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.”
“A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.”
“A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it”
Source: Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us
“A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.”
“A good education is another name for happiness.”
Source: Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry
“A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.”
“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.”
Source: Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry
“A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.”
“A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.”
“A good education or democracy must start at home. Even the juridical department can still be filled with the corrupt minds.”
“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”
Source: Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences
“A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.”
“A good education prepares you well for anything.”
“A good education shapes the strings of one's life's destiny.”
“A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.”
“A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.”
Source: Love and Friendship
“A good effort is not necessarily our best. And our best effort is not necessarily good.”
“A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.”
“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.”
“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.”
“A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.”
“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.”
“A good entrepreneur converts his skills to cash.”
Source: Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.”
“A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.”
“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”
“A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.”
“A good example has twice the value of good advice”
“A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.”
Source: Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker
“A good example is far better than a good precept.”
“A good example is more irritating than a bad one.”
“A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“A good example is the best sermon.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.”
“A good example of a really large-scale anarchist revolution—in fact the best example to my knowledge—is the Spanish revolution in 1936, in which over most of Republican Spain there was a quite inspiring anarchist revolution that involved both industry and agriculture over substantial areas, developed in a way which to the outside looks spontaneous. Though in fact if you look at the roots of it, you discover that it was based on some three generations of experiment and thought and work which extended anarchist ideas to very large parts of the population in this largely pre-industrial—though not totally pre-industrial—society. And that again was, by both human measures and indeed anyone's economic measures, quite successful. That is, production continued effectively; workers in farms and factories proved quite capable of managing their affairs without coercion from above, contrary to what lots of socialists, communists, liberals and others wanted to believe, and in fact you can't tell what would have happened. That anarchist revolution was simply destroyed by force, but during the period in which it was alive I think it was a highly successful and, as I say, in many ways a very inspiring testimony to the ability of poor working people to organize and manage their own affairs, extremely successfully, without coercion and control. How relevant the Spanish experience is to an advanced industrial society. one might question in detail.”
Source: Chomsky On Anarchism
“A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.”
“A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers. With the aid of the integers the shaping and ordering of our experiences becomes exact. Another example is mathematical group theory. ...important applications of group theory are symmetries which can be found in most different connections both in nature and among the 'artifacts' produced by human beings. Group theory also has important applications in mathematics and mathematical physics. For example, the theory of elementary particles and their interactions can in essential respects be reduced to abstract symmetries.
[The Message of the Atoms: Essays on Wolfgang Pauli and the Unspeakable]”
“A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.”
“A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.”
“A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A good exercise session leaves an athlete person gasping for air, sweating, and exhausted, and so is writing and drawing for writers and artists, but the brain is what pants and feels exhaustion.
Writing and drawing are a great mental effort that equals tiring physical training.
When you write and draw, you need to use all your brain muscles to transfer your ideas into the paper. Concentration, knowledge, experience, creativity, imagination, all unite, trying hard to finish a text or an art piece.”
“A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that's when the dark puffy circles can get you.”
“A good face is the best letter of recommendation.”
“A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.”
“A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.”
“A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.”