A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!”
“As actresses, our schedules are really wonky and we work weird hours. For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can. I don't really watch much of any live TV anymore, and I feel like a lot of people are doing that now.”
“As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the fate of humanity. In Eden, Adam sinned; in Gethsemane, Christ took humanity's sin upon Himself. In Eden, Adam hid himself from God; in Gethsemane, Christ interceded with His Father; in Eden, God sought out Adam in his sin of rebellion; in Gethsemane, the New Adam sought out the Father and His submission and resignation. In Eden, a sword was drawn to prevent entrance into the garden and thus immortalizing of evil; in Gethsemane, the sword would be sheathed.”
Source: Life of Christ
“As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.”
“As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.”
“As adolescence begins, the second genetically programmed growth of synapses is followed by a long decade of brain remodeling that involves the programmed destruction of neurons and their connections that are not being used. The parcellation process in which connections are pruned is thought to be a 'use -it-or-lose-it' neural reshaping that is exacerbated by stress. Such a period of brain change is also marked by vulnerability , as underlying neural deficits, unrealized before adolescence, may becomes exposed during the pruning process.”
Source: The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
“As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.”
“As adults, our job is to model, teach and empower our children, leave the world a little better off for them and take care of ourselves, and more importantly, each other”
Source: Raising Future Adults: How You Can Help Ensure Your Children Grow Up to be Thriving Adults
“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women's magazine, a comic, a children's book, or the latest book that just about everyone is reading. No one chastises us for our choice. No one says, 'That's too short for you to read.' No one says, 'That's too easy for you, put it back.' No one says 'You couldn't read that if you tried -- it's much too difficult.'
Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.”
Source: Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
“As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy.”
“As adults, we have many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. The person who is afraid to cry is afraid of pleasure. This is because the person who is afraid to cry holds himself together rigidly so that he won't cry; that is, the rigid person is as afraid of pleasure as he is afraid to cry. In a situation of pleasure he will become anxious. As his tensions relax he will begin to tremble and shake, and he will attempt to control this trembling so as not to break down in tears. His anxiety is nothing more than the conflict between his desire to let go and his fear of letting go. This conflict will arise whenever the pleasure is strong enough to threaten his rigidity.
Since rigidity develops as a means to block out painful sensations, the release of rigidity or the restoration of the natural motility of the body will bring these painful sensations to the fore. Somewhere in his unconscious the neurotic individual is aware that pleasure can evoke the repressed ghosts of the past. It could be that such a situation is responsible for the adage "No pleasure without pain.”
Source: The Voice of the Body
“As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.”
Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
“As adults, we will hate only if we remain trapped in a situation in which we cannot give free expression to our feelings. It is this dependency that makes us start to hate. As soon as we break that dependency (which as adults we can normally do, unless we are prisoners of some totalitarian regime), as soon as we free ourselves from that slavery, then we will no longer hate.”
Source: The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
“As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.”
Source: Ye Are My Friends
“As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.”
“As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community.”
“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”
“As advertising always convinces the sponsor even more than the public, the scientists have become sold, and remain sold, on the idea that they have the key to the Absolute, and that nothing will do for Mr. Average Citizen but to stuff himself full of electrons.”
Source: Science is a sacred cow
“As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.”
Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts
“As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?”
“As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.”
“As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring.”
“As Africans our leaders failed us and they keep on failing us daily, by trying to keep us poor, uneducated, unskilled, slaves, undeveloped. We are failing ourselves on how we behave, think and how we talk. We are failing ourselves by undermining each other, humiliating one another. Killing each other. Committing crime, misbehaving, and breaking the law . Making fun of each other’s suffering, problems, living and lifestyles. Our enemy is poverty, crime, unemployment, and inequality . We should be ashamed of ourselves for thinking that the people we are hurting and committing crime to deserve it.”
“As Africans we must uplift each other.”
Source: I Am a Girl from Africa
“As Africans, we need to support each other, but we cannot support each other in doing wrong or bad things. We cannot support each other in committing crimes and breaking the law. We need to support each other in doing what is right. We should support each other's businesses, talents, skills, investments, and ideas. We should also offer each other moral support”
“As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.”
“As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.”
Source: Opinions of Oliver Allston
“As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.”
Source: Memoirs
“As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.”
“As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.”
“As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.”
Source: The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir
“As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"”
“As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind; while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.”
“As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a very plausible case can be made that our civilization is fundamentally threatened by the lack of adequate fertility control. Exponential increases of population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized.”
“As agony unfolds into ecstasy, the soul unfurls through the melancholic autumn, the bare winter, finally opening into the youthful spring.”
“As AI advances, we must build guardrails or risk a future where our creations tip the balance toward danger.”
“As AI continues its rapid evolution, the path forward seems increasingly to lie in hybrid systems. These innovations—RAG, PAL, and ReAct—are emblematic of this trend, melding traditional neural network strengths with other methods to push AI's capabilities further. For business leaders, an understanding of these advancements isn't just beneficial; it's essential for staying ahead in the AI-driven future.”
Source: Introduction to Large Language Models for Business Leaders: Responsible AI Strategy Beyond Fear and Hype
“As AI reshapes financial planning in 2025, FP&A teams gain the power of real-time forecasts but face the problems of data quality gaps. It's important to blend human oversight with automated insights to deliver decisions that adapt well to market shifts.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“As AI technology matures paired with the continued implementation of Blockchain technology, I think we'll see a lot of analyst, educator and lawyer jobs for example be repositioned into the consulting industry. Consulting will pretty much be a broad category for all jobs involved in the gathering, utilization and sale of actionable data.”
“As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.”
“As Alan Paton said, 'Ah but your fucking land is beautiful'.”
Source: Devil's Valley: A Darkly Humorous Literary Mystery Where Grotesque Reality and Supernatural Secrets Collide
“As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.”
“As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.”
“As Albert Schweitzer has said, "Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
Source: Silent Spring
“As Alice may have said 'The best quotes are imaginary.”
“As Alice may have said 'The best quotes are imaginary.”
Sesame”
“As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.”
“As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.”
“As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature