A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.”
Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop
“A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.”
Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
“A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.”
“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.”
Source: Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius: a study in creative translation
“A great amongst the greats.”
“A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".”
“A great amount of compassion is communicated in the simple act of taking someone’s hand and holding on tightly. It creates a spiritual vein through which strength, comfort, and hope are transfused to revitalize the soul.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.”
“A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?”
“A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.”
“A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.”
“A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.”
“A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”
Source: Washington Irving
“A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.”
“A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.”
“A great artist has to be ready to fail.”
“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”
“A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.”
“A great artist is never poor.”
“A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.”
Source: Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel
“A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.”
“A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.”
Source: Truth and Fantasy from My Life
“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.”
“A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.”
“A great attitude toward your approach to an interview—demonstrated by your good posture—is everything.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“A great attitude will help you to overcome tremendous adversity and allow you to climb to the highest altitude.”
“A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always been-beings with an eternal past and a glorious future.”
“A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.”
“A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.”
Source: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“A great benefit about being a Christian, that facilitates much healing, is the fact that thoughts & feelings are 100% totally & completely meaningless, until one's 'conscious-will' self first assesses them for truthfulness, using God's Word as the standard”
“A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.”
Source: Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
“A great body can not be achieved on couch so get up and do something..”
“A great body is a gift you give yourself”
“A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“A great book can feed your soul in a world where the overload of misinformation can break you”
“A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.”
“A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.”
“A great book is like great evil.”
“A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.”
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
Source: Conversations with William Styron
“A great book should leave you with many experiences.”
Source: Conversations with William Styron
“A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.”
“A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.”
“A great brand is a story that's never completely told.”
“A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.”
“A great brand starts with a hero product.”
“A great brand taps into
emotions. Emotions drive most, if not all, of our decisions.
A brand reaches out with a powerful connecting experience.
It's an emotional connecting point that transcends the
product.”