A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.”
“Assassino o meu suicídio.”
Source: Asfixia
“Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?”
Source: Assassination Vacation
“Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.”
“Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.”
Source: Fool's Quest
“Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.”
“Assault!" he croaked.
"The battery might yet follow." The warning- entirely unnecessary from Patience's perspective- came from Vane. One look at his face, as hard as granite and equally unyielding, would have informed any sane person of that fact.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“Assault isn’t just for criminals. Elite military teams, hostage rescue, SWAT, and entry teams use this mindset as much as criminals do. They don’t want to be tested or find out what their limitations are, they want to get the job done and go home. The mindset is implacable and predatory. They use surprise, superior numbers, and superior weapons—every cheat they can, and they practice. On the rare, rare occasions when my team made a fast entry and someone actually fought, the only emotion that I registered was that I was offended that they resisted, and we rolled right over the threat(s) like a force of nature.”
Source: Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence
“Assault survivors respond differently. There's no right or wrong way to react after being physically, emotionally, and/or sexually abused. Some people don't discuss it. They prefer to not rehash it. Others may need to communicate their shock, pain, anger, and trauma. Either way, the assault can be so overwhelming that we may respond in three ways - fight, flight, or freeze.”
Source: Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma
“Assault survivors respond differently. There's no right or wrong way to react after being sexually abused. The assault can be so overwhelming that we may respond in three ways - fight, flee, or freeze.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“Assault weapons ban reintroduced.”
“Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.”
“Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.”
“Assaulting an officer will earn you one to five, Roarke. That's in a cage, not cushy home detention."
"You're not wearing your badge. Or anything else, for that matter." He gave her a friendly nip on the chin. "Be sure to put that in your report.”
Source: Naked in Death
“Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Asscrown," I muttered under my breath as I headed to my next class. I wasn't proud of swearing at a complete stranger, no. but he started it.
Noah matched my pace. "Don't you mean 'assclown'?" He looked amused.
"No," I said, louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses," I said, as though I was reading from a dictionary of modern profanity.
"I guess you nailed me then.”
Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.”
Source: The Devils of Loudun
“Assemble the links
Piece by piece.
Then travel through time And earn your release.”
Source: Time Chain
“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Assembling a coherent portrait of Muhammad’s life required piecing together scattered fragments and structuring them in an organized manner. What emerged from the reconstruction was the realization that Muhammad had endured terrible setbacks and traumatic suffering, only to turn his brokenness into an asset, unlocking latent abilities to improve the world around him. Moved by his own experience in overcoming challenges, Muhammad dedicated himself to inspiring others to see their imperfections as the very source of their potential. Despite all the pain, Muhammad refused to see himself as a victim. His nickname al- Badr Laylat At-Tamam (the fullest moon) referred to illumination of the darkness by his bright shining face.”
Source: Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
“Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.”
“ASSERT -
Always Stand Strong, Evoking Respect Tacitly”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Assert your certainty, doubt flies out and wealth flies in.”
“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.”
“Assertion as comfort, certain as death.”
“Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.”
“Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.”
“ASSertive, ill-informed, and misguided leadership at the expense of organizational morale, climate, soldier well-being, and taking care of a soldier's support system isn't leadership at all; it's the chemistry for eroded trust, values, warrior ethos, ethics, and discipline, which takes far longer to rebuild than it took to destroy”
“Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.”
“Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!”
“Assertiveness is the quiet power that transforms hesitation into action. When you navigate with nerve, you don’t just speak up—you redefine how the world listens.”
Source: Navigating with Nerve: Assertive Strategies for Life
“Assess before you Assume”
“Assess people based on their capacity for growth, development, or future success, not their past failures.”
“Assess the possibilities to determine your path.”
“Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.”
“Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.”
Source: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
“Assessing Inventive Step to determine patentability is subjective, but it has to be viewed objectively.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Assessing organizational personality, managing company performance and maximizing business potential are all important digital management scenarios to build the high-mature digital organization.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Assessment and diagnosis act as the gateway to understanding learning gaps, involving thorough reviews of past work, dialogues with students and parents, and perceptive observations of habits and attitudes.”
“Assessment and diagnosis lay the groundwork in the preliminary phase, paving the way for effective remediation by setting clear objectives and aligning suitable strategies and resources.”
“Assessment and diagnosis mark the starting point in addressing learning gaps, involving a comprehensive review of past work, communication with students and parents, and keen observations of habits and attitudes.”
“Assessment and diagnosis of student learning gaps lay the groundwork in the preliminary phase of an effective remediation session by setting clear objectives and aligning suitable strategies and resources.”
“Assessment in this spirit does not concern assignment of grades or evaluation of whether instruction was effective. It's assessment designed squarely to feed into the learning process and make the learning stronger.”
Source: Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
“Assessment is about teachers and not about students.”
“Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.”
“Assessment plays a crucial role in curriculum delivery, allowing teachers to gauge student progress and adjust their teaching methods accordingly, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to succeed.”
“Assessments help gauge students' progress, allowing for necessary modifications and personalized support, which may involve collaboration with students, parents, peers, and stakeholders.”
“Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.”
Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and
“Asset bubbles have happened even without not-so-easy money. And, in a depressed economy, where alternative uses of money are not great, people are going to bid up the prices of profitable corporations and stuff like that.”
“Asset management CEOs globally are looking at their business models. They're looking at costs, they're looking at making their businesses more efficient, because they're seeing revenues under pressure all over the world.”