A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.”
“At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.”
“At least once in their lives, everyone should have the opportunity to stand by the river and simply watch the water roll on by.”
Source: Fathers of Edenville
“At least once in your life, something will go terribly wrong, and oh by the way, it will be your fault (or at least seem to be). All the heads will turn to you.
This is your defining moment, hold yourself, hold the panic, hold the anger, hold the blames.
Accept the situation, remember this as a rule - "shit happens to everyone atleast once in their lifetime" so gather yourself and work to contain the damage, to fix what can be fixed and minimize the impact.
Success isn't never falling it is getting up from a fall and turning things around.”
“At least once per year, some group of scientists will become very excited and announce that:
•The universe is even bigger than they thought!
•There are even more subatomic particles than they thought!
•Whatever they announced last year about global warming is wrong.”
Source: Dave Barry Turns 50
“At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.”
“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.”
“At least one of the bills, the one for Mom’s credit card, kind of solved a mystery. Guess what? All those big presents Dad got us—even that dinner at Shoney’s—he put on Mom’s credit card. I bet he’s the one who took Mom’s “missing” Christmas money, too. What a nice guy, huh?
There were lots of other things on the bill, too—lots of bar tabs at the Alibi Inn that I know were Dad’s, not Mom’s, because Mom can’t drink more than one beer without falling asleep. And it looks like the card was maxxed out the day after Christmas. So Dad just left when he couldn’t use Mom’s card anymore. It wasn’t my fault at all.”
Source: Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
“At least one person is going to be naked,' I say. 'You know it's true. I've never been to a single revel in Faerie where everyone had clothes on.'
'Well, if that's your plan,' she says, turning on her heels. 'Then I suppose all you need is a pretty necklace.'
'Wait,' I say. 'You're right. I don't have a dress, and I need one. Please don't go.'
When Oriana turns, a hint of a smile is on her face. 'How unlike you, to say what you actually mean and have it be something other than hostile.”
Source: The Wicked King
“At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.”
Source: Pretties
“At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.”
“At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.”
“At least our ducks and geese live in backyard pens, though trudging outside to fill their plastic swimming pools involves a trip through the basement, where two convalescing turkeys yip pathetically if I don't coo and hand-feed them grain.”
Source: Enslaved by Ducks
“At least Ozymandias had a statue erected in his name. If I were to have died at that moment, the only thing I had managed to erect in my honor was a shrine to China’s manufacturing capabilities.”
Source: Nature's Housekeeper
“At least reindeer kisses do not cause me to take leave of my senses.”
Source: His Captive Bride
“At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.”
“At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge.”
“At least she can be tamed as easily as the others. I extend my hand and give her an encouraging look.
She takes a step— but then her expression shifts, her eyes darken and she swings.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.”
Source: Lying Game Complete Collection: The Lying Game; Never Have I Ever; Two Truths and a Lie; Hide and Seek; Cross My Heart, Hope to Die; Seven Minutes in Heaven; First Lie; Truth Lies
“At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.”
“At least she (Thomas' mom) knows what she wants is dead. What I want just refuses to be with me. Maybe I should compare notes with her on what's worse, for I swear to God sometimes I think if you were dead this would hurt less.”
Source: Rough Canvas
“At least she was charming, she assured herself. But charm was thin compensation for a life of constant, lurking terror.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.”
“At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.”
“At least some of us need to be very careful in running to coronating Secretary Clinton.”
“At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it." "Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.”
“At least ten times as many people died from preventable, poverty-related diseases on September 11, 2011, as died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on that black day. The terrorist attacks led to trillions of dollars being spent on the ‘war on terrorism’ and on security measures that have inconvenienced every air traveller since then. The deaths caused by poverty were ignored. So whereas very few people have died from terrorism since September 11, 2001, approximately 30,000 people died from poverty-related causes on September 12, 2001, and on every day between then and now, and will die tomorrow. Even when we consider larger events like the Asian tsunami of 2004, which killed approximately 230,000 people, or the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed up to 200,000, we are still talking about numbers that represent just one week’s toll for preventable, poverty-related deaths — and that happens fifty-two weeks in every year.”
Source: Practical Ethics
“At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.”
Source: Nightlife
“At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.”
“At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.”
“At least the hem of the skirt doesn't drag impractically on the floor. I can still run in it as I howl at the moon.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. It riled some innate feminist... that the princesses were strongest when they were acting like the men...”
Source: Danse Macabre
“At least the object of my feelings is always there, and I needn't be afraid of rivals, except Margot. Don't think I'm in love, because I'm not, but I do have the feeling all the time that something fine can grow up between us, something that gives confidence and friendship.”
Source: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Multiple Critical Perspectives
“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”
“At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.”
“At least the presence of Harry, her tabby cat, purring softly and weaving in and out of her legs was better than no company at all.”
Source: Caught on the Web
“At least the rumours about wing-span correlating with the size of other parts were right.'
His back muscles tensed as he choked out a laugh. 'Such a dirty, wicked mouth.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place”
“At least then she had been beautiful in flames. Now she was just burned. A ruin.”
Source: Notes on Infinity
“At least there is one book with which we all or few of us could have fun.”
Source: 2 Hours
“At least there's nothing traditional about an engagement dinner, so we'll be spared having to prepare a twelve-course wedding banquet loaded with meaning. There will be no roasted pig to symbolize purity. No bright red lobster for luck. No shark fin soup for wealth.”
Source: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
“At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.”
“At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.”
“At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking feelings.”
Source: Broken River
“At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge.”
“At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race.”
“At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.”
“At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.”
“At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“At least Tsar Alexander III understood that the game now being played was for the highest stakes. When Giers asked him, '...what would we gain by helping the french destroy Germany?' he replied: 'what we would gain would be that Germany, as such, would disappear. It would break up into a number of small, weak states, the way it used to be'.”