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, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."”
“At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.”
“At some point, Moore's law will break down.”
Source: Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
“At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.”
“At some point, people may decide that the U.S. stock market has fallen enough. After all, the U.S. economy seems to be getting better, that what happens in China is not going to have that devastating effect on car sales here or how many people buy Apple phones or what happens at - how many people shop at Wal-Mart.”
“At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.”
“At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".”
“At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf.”
“At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.”
“At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.”
“At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.”
“At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.”
“At some point, there would simply be no point.”
Source: Still Alice
“At some point, we all have to let go.”
“At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.”
“At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it's barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you've got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.”
“At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.”
“At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.”
“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”
Source: Paper Towns
“At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.”
“At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.”
“At some point, you have to disconnect, if the obsession with playing a real person gets in the way of the movie at large. At the same time, we're all interested, as actors in trying to get as close to the real thing as we can, and whatever you can do in order to create that transformation feels fun and, for me, the furthest I can get away from myself is fun. It's all part of the costume, the accent, and all that stuff. It's about trying to get close without it being a detriment to the point of view of the story that you're trying to tell.”
“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them”
“At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.”
Source: The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist
“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.”
Source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library
“At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.”
“At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.”
“At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.”
“At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.”
“At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.”
“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”
“At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.”
“At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.”
“At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going to confront a crisis from which we cannot return. The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.”
“At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.”
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.”
“At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.”
“At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream.”
“At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.”
“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“At some time you have to choose to live in the light.”
Source: The Cheerleaders
“At some time you start to think your dreams are beyond you. The universe is sending you messages to quit... contrary. The universe is simply making sure that it really is something you want. Anything great is worth fighting for. Keep fighting, keep persisting. It is only through persistence that we ultimately succeed.”
“At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.”
“At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.”