A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“At times we will be asked to let go of things that we have always wanted to keep for ourselves, or things that we would never have thought that we would to have to let go of, such as the loss of a loved one or the betrayal of a dear friend. A tree never hesitates to shake off her leaves during fall, and so we must take another lesson given to us by the nature: let go when it is time. Although such losses can be difficult and painful, rise above this suffering. Focus within your mind, the image of the Lotus prospering above mud. We are the lotus; rise above.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.”
“At times we're going to get angry. Anger is an emotion God built into us. But we don't have to blow up and say hurtful things that are going to damage our relationships. Learn to take a step back, collect your thoughts, and think about what you want to say.”
Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set
“At times what you are fighting for isn't worth it.”
“At times what you expect and what happens don’t match.
The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..!”
“At times, when God opens a new door, it leads to a place way darker.”
Source: Heaven's Gate
“At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!”
“At times, when life becomes too weary and worn, all a heart desires is for the journey to find its final dawn.”
“At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.”
“At times you can lose yourself in your journey to find out who you are, and that's ok because a journey is not a set road. It was built to be unpredictable. The person you were will not always be who you end up as. Nevertheless, it does not mean that who you were at the beginning, or all of who you were in the middle, or who you are at the end is any less valuable than each other.”
“At times you got to find the untouched parts within yourself to be able to discover the true you”
“At times you got to find the untouched parts within yourself to be able to discover the true you a deeper level.”
“At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one.”
Source: Culture Warrior
“At times, you just have to Lay back, to Listen, Learn and Leverage.”
“At times, you may lack the strength to ascend the ladder of success. You will need wisdom and determination to climb until you get there.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“At times you need to meet a person at their worst for you to confirm that they are truelly who you love.”
“At times, you only need your good intention to make a positive contribution.”
“At times you’ve no one around to be blamed for all the shit you have to go through in life. It’s not always the mistake of the people of the world that you were not granted something you wished so bad to have. It’s just not written for you. It’s not as easy to feel as it sounds to hear this fact from your loved ones who’re trying to console you or read anywhere on a paper, unless and until you’re in those circumstances experiencing the thing you loved the most taken away from your hands. Every second feels like torture that you’ve never heard, never encountered, or experienced before.”
Source: Breaking a Pledge
“At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“At times your past will burden you, get you into trouble, may put you down. Remember, don't give in to it. Become aware of its meaning to you, you can control the impact of your past now, and use it to your advantage. Set yourself to raise above and higher.”
“At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind”
“At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.”
“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.”
Source: The Last Song
“At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.”
“At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.”
“At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.”
“At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.”
“At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.”
“At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"”
“At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.”
Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
“At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.”
“At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.”
Source: Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)
“At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.”
“At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.”
“At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.”
Source: Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment
“At times, my parents said, "Let's get the child married," and I said a big no. Impossible. How could I be with a woman? I told them, "If you try to get me married, I'll get myself castrated and commit suicide." It was the best weapon. They were shocked, and they knew that if I decided, I would do it. I was selfish. I just wanted to live my life.”
“At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.”
“At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.”
“At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.”
“At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at, you really depend on the director to create that world for you.”
“At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.”
Source: The Braindead Megaphone
“At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.”
“At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.”
“At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.”
“At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say that it was only one way of looking at it. Whenever addressing realms of Heaven or Hell, he'd also address that it was just a psychological state.”
“At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.”
“At Travelers, we were much more opportunistic. It was very successful, but it wasn't an integrated financial services company. We had a property casualty company, a life company, a brokerage company. We were a financial conglomerate. It wasn't a unified, coordinated strategy of any sort. When it merged with Citi, that became a big issue; Citi, at that time, wasn't yet a fully integrated, coordinated company.”