A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“At some point, we just have to make a choice.
Grab the chance
or let it go by.
Stay and invest
or move along.
Choose or don't choose.
It's all a choice,
the choice we make.
Big. Little. Over and over.
And all the little choices
make a life.”
“At some point, we may come to experience the collapse of trends in their entirety, replaced by the constant emergence of a multitude of micro-trends. Welcome to the end of trends.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”
“At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil”
“At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.”
“At some point we must wake up to implement the dream. If not, then it becomes just that. A dream.”
“At some point, we started to believe that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we mixed up our opinions, egos and truth in a single bundle so that when someone or something does challenge the notion we subscribed to, we react as it challenges us.”
“At some point, when we have been blessed with profoundly moving, touching and special moments, it is important to stop questioning and to begin accepting the gift of the experience. Such moments add only richness and great joy to this journey called life.”
Source: Touched by the Extraordinary
“At some point, you and I are going to have to start trusting each other, Sorrengail. The rest of our lives depend on it.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.”
“At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.”
“At some point you do say to yourself, “I’m trying to be the best version of me, what’s wrong? What am I missing as a person?” There’s no reasoning with him. He doesn’t have time for this crap…we have a facade to maintain. So shut up, put on your best Laura Ashley dress and let’s go.
Then something inside you breaks.
- A Letter To Hannah”
“At some point, you get tired of reliving the past. You’re ready for what comes next.”
Source: Twice
“At some point, you have got to be fed up. Be fed up with living a lie. Be fed up with settling for crumbs. Be fed up with moving around as if you were not destined for greater heights. Be fed up with looking down upon who you are. There should be that turning point where you look in the mirror and go like, "Yeah, right, I am good enough. I am ordained for signs and wonders. I have big dreams, and I will ensure they are actualized. I will not take an ordinary path because my Creator has created me to excel in life." This should be your stance, and there is no need to apologize for that.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“At some point, you have got to be fed up. Be fed up with living a lie. Be fed up with settling for crumbs. Be fed up with moving around as if you were not destined for greater heights. Be fed up with looking down upon who you are. There should be that turning point where you look in the mirror and say it out loud, "Yeah, right, I am good enough. I am ordained for signs and wonders. I have big dreams, and I will ensure they are actualized. I will not take an ordinary path, because my Creator has created me to excel in life." This should be your stance, and there is no need to apologize for that.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“At some point, you have got to be fed up. Be fed up with living a lie. Be fed up with settling for crumbs. Be fed up with moving around as if you were not destined for greater heights. Be fed up with looking down upon who you are. There should be that turning point where you look in the mirror and say out loud, "Yeah, right, I am good enough. I am ordained for signs and wonders. I have big dreams, and I will ensure they are actualized. I will not take an ordinary path, because my Creator has created me to excel in life." This should be your stance, and there is no need to apologize for that.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.”
Source: Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
“At some point you have to figure out who you are. Are you someone who picks themselves back up? Are you someone who learns how to handle hardship and losing friendships, and keep going? Do you know how to find your people and let yourself have fun? And if you don't learn about that in seventh grade with everyone else, then...when will you learn it?”
Source: The Things We Miss
“At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.”
“At some point you have to own up to how
great you are, how beautiful you are, to how much inner dignity and
potential you have. Drop complaining about what other people didn’t give
you or do for you, or how they mistreated you. Take repossession of
your Self and you will rise to a level of greatness that has been yours
all along.”
“At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward into your life.”
Source: The Trip to Echo Spring
“At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.”
Source: Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams
“At some point you have to stop and say ‘Enough. This is me.’ and fight for it as hard as you can.”
Source: Ziggy, Stardust and Me
“At some point you have to take what the world gives you, even if the world is not enough.”
“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”
Source: 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“At some point you may get fired, but don't worry you will learn from it”
“At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.”
“At some point you need to stop jumping the chasm for people who wouldn't jump a pothole for you.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.”
“At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people I respect and admire. And that will come in its time. In the meantime, "Pay attention to your work. Get better at what you do." That's my job.”
“At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.”
“At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.”
“At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.”
“At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.”
“At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.”
Source: One Day
“At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.”
“At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.”
“At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.”
Source: This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
“At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.”
“At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?”
“At some point, every once in a while, through the year, I'll make up a list of all my current ideas. And then I'll add a few add a few, and I just realize that I'm going to die before I get them all done. But it's kind of nice - I'm never gonna be bored.”
“At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.”
Source: The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy
“At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.”
Source: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
“At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."”
“At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.”
“At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn’t own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack.”
“At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.”
“At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.”