A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.”
“As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.”
“As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.”
“As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.”
“As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.”
“As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.”
“As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.”
“As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.”
“As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.”
“As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!”
“As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.”
“As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.”
“As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.”
“As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.”
“As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)”
Source: Sails and Mirage
“As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.”
“As a British person living in the USA, I keep a low profile on Independence Day, July 4th.”
“As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a question of price, not principle.”
“As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God”
“As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.”
“As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes
“As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.”
“As a brute I was more thankful for a mitigation of punishment, than as a king I had been for offers of the highest happiness and honour. And who that is not taught by affliction, can justly estimate the bounties of Heaven?”
Source: The Adventurer
“As a Buddhist monk, I believe that there is a next life. The Buddhist practice of tantra, in particular, contains many unique preparations for death and it is very important for practitioners to familiarize ourselves with them so that we can actualize these practices when we die. Therefore, in my daily practice, I meditate on my own death and rebirth repeatedly. This is supposed to prepare me for death, but I’m still not sure whether or not I’ll be equipped to handle it when it actually comes. Sometimes I feel that when it does, I might start getting excited about whether or not I’ll be able to implement these practices effectively.”
Source: Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment and Lama Je Tsong Khapa's Lines of Experience
“As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.”
“As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance”
Source: View from the UN
“As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.”
Source: View from the UN
“As a builder, you don't get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.”
“As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.”
“As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.”
“As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.”
“As a business leader, you must also pay it forward and give it backward.”
Source: Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success
“As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.”
“As a business owner you should never mix business income with personal income and never mix business expenses with personal expenses. Your business is a separate entity with a life of its own. Your job is to lead and manage that separate entity, not to entangle with it. Entangling with your business will result in chaos. But keeping business and personal separate will facilitate efficiency and reduce stress.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“As a business owner, you should think of each and every employee you hire as a fruit seed. You plant it in your ranks and water it regularly so that it may grow and blossom out to become a thriving member of your organization.”
Source: Businessman With An Affliction
“As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?”
“As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.”
“As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.”
“As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.”
“As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.”
“As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.”
“As a businesswoman you have to be open. I'm always open to listening and learning and considering. However, I don't look at business as anything other than a partnership. And in any partnership both parties need to leave the table happy.”
“As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.”
“As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!”
“As a busy, grown ass woman, I don't have the time. What I do is I keep myself and my hair hydrated - I drink lots of water and wet my hair frequently. I also keep it highly moisturized.”
“as a buyer you got the item or service you wanted, plus additives that you didn’t ask for and that may be harmful to you and your loved ones.”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.”
“As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.”
“As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.”