A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.”
“As long as something teaches you some things, do not be afraid of it!”
“As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.”
“As long as something was a mystery, there was still the potential for amazement. Maybe that's where I went wrong before. Some riddles weren't meant to be solved.”
Source: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
“As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.”
“As long as sufferance is on your side, you'll find victory even in death.”
“As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.”
“As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.”
“As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tacked onto a "regular" work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain.”
“As long as the abuse or neglect experienced in childhood remains buried within, we re-recreate our family in adult relationships.”
Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated
“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free from the coercion of parents and masters.”
Source: Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical
“As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.”
“As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.”
“As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.”
“As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.”
“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.”
“As long as the awareness of ‘doer-ship’ is there, till then, one keeps on ‘charging’ (karma). In the Akram-path, ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush) destroy your doer-ship. The awareness that ‘I am the doer’ goes away and we give the understanding of ‘who the doer is’. Therefore, ‘charging’ (of karma) stops! What is left now? Only the ‘discharge’ is left.”
“As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting.”
Source: A-Ma Alchemy of Love
“As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.”
“As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.”
“As long as the Children of Israel saw Pharaoh as a friend, they could not see Moses and Jehovah as their true friend. As they came into consciousness - by the wicked things that Pharaoh continued to do against them - that Pharaoh was indeed their enemy, then Moses and Jehovah's call to them to separate from Pharaoh to build a nation of their own became a reality.”
“As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.”
Source: Three plays
“As long as the courts are controlled by men, females will continue to suffer. Today many of the female judges and lawyers who work in the legal system end up working to appease men ...and not to serve justice.”
“As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we got.”
“As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.”
“As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.”
Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life
“As long as the doubts (shanka) related to the Self (Atma) do not go away, no doubt of the worldly life will leave.”
Source: Who am I?
“As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.”
Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
“As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.”
Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
“As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“As long as the egoism is alive, ‘my-ness’ remains within the self.”
“As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.”
“As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.”
“As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.”
“As long as the fans were happy, I knew I'd had a good night, and it didn't really matter what anuone else thought.”
“As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.”
“As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.”
Source: I and Thou
“As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.”
“As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.”
“As long as the full implications of Israel's past and present ethnic cleansing policies are not recognized and tackled by the international community, there will be no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Source: Ten Myths About Israel
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
Source: Who Rules the World?
“As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners”
“As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.”
Source: The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making
“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
Source: A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.”
“As long as the human race fails to look within and see the darkness there, they'll continue to be drawn to the darkness without, i.e. the psychopath which whom they are so easily enamored.”
“As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.”
Source: The soccer tribe
“As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.”
Source: Ceremony