A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As far as I am aware, I am the only person in the world researching High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD) and that makes me the world’s leading expert on the subject.”
“As far as I am concern, there are no ugly faces. There are only ugly minds, ugly hearts and ugly souls”
“As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religios one.”
“As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such a person has then no excuse for imagining that God could bring any but the best possible ending to pass without thereby being in some sense a failed creator.”
Source: That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
“As far as I am concerned, bigotry in strawberry or vanilla flavor is still bigotry.”
Source: Demonspawn
“As far as I am concerned, eight years of the corrupt Obama administration was eight years too much.”
“As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
“As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.”
“As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.”
Source: Brisingr
“As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light—it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does”
Source: Lucian Freud: early works : Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
“As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.”
“As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.”
“As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.”
“As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.”
“As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people”
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”
“As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.”
“As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.”
Source: Complete Essays
“As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.”
“As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.”
“As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow”
Source: Trout
“As far as I can determine, the universe is made of ninety-five percent contradiction. And I’m not certain about the last five percent.”
Source: Dream Storm Sea
“As far as I can figure, the way that it works is this: everyone has something that happened to them. The thing that we each carry. And you can see it in people, if you look. See it in the way someone walks, in the way someone takes a compliment, sometimes you can just see it in someone’s eyes. In one moment of desperation, of fear, in one quick moment you can see that thing that happened. Everyone has it. The thing that keeps you up at night, or makes you not trust people, or stops love. The thing that hurts. And to stop it, to stop the hurt, you have to turn it into a story. And not just a story you play over and over for yourself, but a story that you tell. A story’s not a story unless you tell it. And once you tell it, it’s not yours anymore. You give it away. And once you give it away, it’s not something that hurts you anymore, it’s something that helps everyone who hears it. It’s the kind of thing that’s hard to explain. It’s probably best if we just show you how it works.”
Source: How It Works
“As far as I can go, I will reach for it.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.”
“As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.”
Source: My Story
“As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.”
Source: Lolita
“As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.”
“As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people who are willing to settle for less. I cannot even comprehend how people's desires can be small, ambitions narrow and limited, when the possibilities are endless”
Source: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
“As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin....they would be less concerned with playing nicely.”
“As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. That’s who he is; that’s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bitten—so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it.”
“As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.”
“As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.”
“As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.”
“As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.”
“As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”
“As far as I can tell, activism is composed of meetings, spreadsheets, and arts and crafts.”
Source: Query
“As far as I can tell from my observations, growing up seems to involve a lot of false starts, a lot of broken promises. The realization of the world as something neither for nor against you, but rather uninterested in you entirely. No matter how special you are, how many gold stars you receive, the world itself is incapable of loving you. When you're a kid, you don't care. You love what you love: your parents, your neighbor's angry cat, your favorite TV characters and their plastic replicas on your shelf, regardless of what you get in return. But growing up seems to be a lesson in loving only those who will love you back, and forsaking the rest.”
Source: Sign Here
“As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored.”
“As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They’re called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here’s a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don’t we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.”
“As far as I can tell, the Hindu-Muslim tensions in India are never-ending.”
“As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.”
“As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.”
Source: Catching Fire
“As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?”
“As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.”
“As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.”
“As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.”
Source: Paper Towns