A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
“A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.”
“A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.”
“A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.”
“A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.”
“A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“A great challenge for parents is how to prepare themselves for being successful in advising children.”
“A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.”
“A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.”
“A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I'm convinced of that. There you learn everything that youll need later as a pro. Someone whos got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesnt lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, youre prepared for anything, youve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.”
“A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.”
“A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.”
Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
“A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.”
“A great chess player always has a very good memory.”
“A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them”
“A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”
“A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little.”
“A great city is a great solitude.”
Source: Sirens Should be Seen and Not Heard
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
Source: Politics
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.”
“A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.”
“A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.”
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
Source: Coningsby, etc
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325
“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325
“A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.”
“A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.”
“A great cologne can really attract a partner. Women particularly respond to smell, and they also have a good sense of memory in terms of men. I think it's very important for a man to wear a good fragrance.”
“A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.”
“A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.”
“A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.”
“A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.”
“A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.”
“A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.”
“A great convulsion of the earth, or at least our American corner of it. Isn't that what we have all lived through?”
Source: Find Me
“A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you have a feel for ingredients, the pots, the pans and stoves, that type of thing.”
“A great country can have no such thing as a little war.”
“A great country cannot wage a little war.”
Source: Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century
“A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.”
“A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.”
“A great country ought not to make little wars.”
“A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.”
“A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.”
“A great, crude, strong, young people are the Americans - like a boisterous healthy boy among enervated but well bred ladies and gentlemen . . . Picture to yourself the American people as a great lusty youth - who treads on all your sensibilities, perpetrates every possible horror of ill manners - whom neither age nor just tradition inspire with reverence - but who moves about his affairs with a good hearted freshness which may well be the envy of older nations of the earth [Winston S. Churchill to his brother Jack]”
Source: Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900
“A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.”
“A great danger is sometimes so indifferent to those who challenge it that the endangered person will survive no matter how many mistakes he makes!”
“A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.”
Source: Conversations with Raymond Carver
“A great dark storm in your heart,
a spot everyone is afraid to touch.
I am not like them; you must know
it would be my privilege to taste your sorrow.”
Source: Lullaby of the Universe