A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,
And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint
Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.”
Source: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
“A half-sight draws the horizon of her acts:
Her depths remember what she came to do,
But the mind has forgotten or the heart mistakes:
In Nature’s endless lines is lost the God.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A half smile from Jackson Emery felt like so much more than the average person’s full-blown grin.”
Source: Disgrace
“A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.”
Source: Half A Shadow
“A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.”
“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
Source: Leacock on Life
“A half-wild beast, Nesta had called me. But compared to him, compared to this place, compared to the elegant, easy way they held their goblets, the way the golden-haired one had called me human... we were all half-wild beasts to the High Fae. Even if they were the ones who could don fur and claws.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.”
Source: Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
“A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.”
“A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.”
“A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.”
“A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.”
“A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.”
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.”
“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
“A half-truth is usually less than half of that.”
“A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.”
“A hallmark of female adolescence is the realization that you are being commodified. You then are developing a sense of self within a cultural framework that values you primarily as an object.”
Source: Spectacle: Discover a Vibrant Life through the Lens of Curiosity
“A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.”
“A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.”
“A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it's time to abandon some of your most treasured tools- and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.”
Source: Think Again, Atomic Habits and Thinking, Fast and Slow 3 Books Collection Set
“A hallowed frequency within
That, even in your darkest hour,
You can always turn to.”
“A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money.”
“A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.”
Source: Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950
“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”
“A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.”
“A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“A halál különben is nagyítóüveget visel, s ha hirtelen visz el valakit, a nagy sietésben rendesen ott felejti.
Ez az üveg szépnek, okosnak, felülmúlhatatlannak mutatja az elköltözöttet. Lángész volt, gavallér volt. A szívek húrjait megrezegteti egy fájó gondolat, s egy kis keserűség támad a nyomában. A halott igazsága erősebb, mint az élőé – az ő örökre becsukott szemeiből világosabban látszik az őszintesége. Egyébiránt az összes emberi hazugságok közül ez a legszebb.”
Source: Új Zrínyiász
“A halántékánál és a homlokánál lobogó aranyszőke fürtjei, a hosszúkás, barna szempillái által beárnyékolt nagy, mandula alakú kék szeme és a hegyes orra tökéletesen megmutatta a szelídségét, a tartózkodó báját.”
Source: Kurt Seyt & Shura
“A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.”
Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary
“A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.”
Source: The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
“A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.”
“A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.”
“A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.”
Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
“A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat.”
Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
“A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.”
“A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.”
“A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!”
“A hammock is like a steady drip of morphine, without the danger of renal failure.”
“A hand - a hand with a gentle serenity - a hand with a pious unity - a hand with a caring amity - a hand with a human purity - is the need of this world.”
Source: All For Acceptance
“a hand, a look and a nice pan. (coup de main, coup d'oeil et belle casserole.)”
Source: Les Contes de la nuit
“A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“A hand cannot write on itself.”
“A hand closed around her arm, warm and hard, and it could possibly have been comforting if she had possessed the faintest idea whose appendage it was.”
Source: The Damnation Affair
“A hand fought best when it made a fist.”
“A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.”
“A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.”