A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
Source: The Historian
“As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.”
“As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.”
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.”
“As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.”
“As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.”
“As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.”
“As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.”
Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart
“As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.”
“As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'”
“As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films are opera, and they are... instead of consumption killing off the young lovers, it's Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. It is when the stakes are at their absolute largest in a story: whether somebody is going to live or die. In a way, it's just holding up a mirror to life.”
“As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another.”
Source: Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales
“As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.”
“As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.”
“As a human being I am personally saddened, as I have a great deal of respect for the large number of British colleagues I have worked with over the years. That is why I personally invested countless hours, days and nights, in negotiating a fair deal for the United Kingdom.”
“As a human being, I feel the duty to contribute to the wisdom of the entire humane race—as I’m a representative of the humanity living on the Earth.
I’m wondering why most people do not feel any similar drive?”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“As a human being living one's life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.”
“As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.”
“As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.”
“As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience.”
Source: A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
“As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual love?’ but rather ‘How do I make my love more unusual and more unacceptable?”
Source: Y/N
“As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.”
“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”
“As a human being, you can trust yourself to know when you’re emotionally satisfied. You know when you’ve been given full measure. You aren’t a bottomless pits of ceaseless demands. You can trust the inner prompts that tell you when something is missing.”
Source: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents / Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents
“As a human being you have the right to express yourself. You have the right to journey wherever your mind wanders and to express the thoughts you come up with along the way. You have the right to believe, and to atone, the same way you have the right to love and to hate.”
Source: 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
“As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.”
“As a human being, as you go through the course of your day, you might wake up with the shittiest day, and by noon something f - king historically funny happens around the water cooler, and you're about to fart yourself you're laughing so hard. And then you might have to think about something seriously for a minute.”
“As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.”
“As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.”
“As a human being, I'm work in process.”
“As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.”
“As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.”
“As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.”
“As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.”
“As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.”
“As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.”
“As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.”
Source: Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.”
“As a human, I love and respect all people; I fight for others' rights as an advocate of humanity; and I also bring to justice those who commit crimes and misdeeds, regardless of distinctions, even if I face the consequences and victimization. Despite that, I never hesitate to exercise and practice it, feeling and learning that if death is everyone's fate and destiny, then why not accept it in such a glorious way?”
“As a human race, we lost and we are still losing a lot of humanity in the process of progress”
Source: My Maasai Experience: Reflections
“As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.”
“As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.”
Source: The Time Saving Agency
“As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.”
“As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.”
“As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“As a humanist, I believe that socialism is the only path to reach the promised land of liberty.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.”
“As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another.”
“As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness.”