A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.”
“Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.”
“Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.”
“Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.”
Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“Awareness, one with knowing, is love.”
“Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to powerfully transform our lives for the better. A pioneering, beautifully-written book.”
“Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.”
“Awash with trepidation, he was suddenly on the mattress, lured like an errant sailor onto a siren’s rocky shore.”
Source: The Fish That Climbed a Tree
“Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs—
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music lest it should not find
An echo in another's mind,
While the touch of Nature's art
Harmonizes heart to heart.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.”
“Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.”
Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“Away from home, my partner and I are on holiday on a resort on an island. Mealtimes bring everyone together. We enter the dining room, where we face many tables places alongside each other… I face what seems like a shocking image. In front of me, on the tables, couples are seated. Table after table, couple after couple, taking the same form: one many sitting by one woman around a ‘round table,’ facing each other 'over’ the table… I am shocked by the sheer force of the regularity of that which is familiar: how each table presents the same form of sociality as the form of the heterosexual couple. How is it possible, with all that is possible, that the same form is repeated again and again? How does the openness of the future get closed down into so little in the present?”
Source: Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
“Away from Lev, she craves his need for her. When with him, it enervates. Why is that? She cannot help it. Nothing to be done. Only with her sister is she unfettered. Tasha never makes her think about it, the terrible stature of love. Its shape, size, weight, the long shadows it casts. With Tasha she never goes cold as stones in a river, as Lev will accuse. You are suddenly so cold! Cold as stones in a river! What have I done wrong? he complains. Nothing. Nothing, my darling.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“Away from the fears and tears,
Let us sit with an ocean of light
held in our eyes.
Let us hear every flutter in this newborn morn,
the dawn's first whisper to these thirsty ears,
and let us feel the feeling that brings life.
Let our love be told in this musical silence.”
“Away from the goal
Far away I stand from my home.
A home unknown
Where my heart and spirit must go
Thy guidance oh Lord
Thy guidance oh lord
Eternal eternity I beseech
that You will lead me to the goal
Away from victory
far away I stand from victory
Victory unknown; thy spirit divine I know
that You may lead me where I must go
Thy guidance oh Lord
Thy guidance oh lord
Victorious victory I beseech
that You will lead me to a victorious victory
Away from the troubles of life
far away from the troubles; my delight
that You will lead me with thy light
Thy light that rekindles my night
Thy guidance oh Lord
Thy guidance oh lord
Far away from the troubles I beseech
That You will lead me from the troubles of life with Thy light”
“Away from the safety of your home, the universe was not made for your convenience.”
“Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.”
Source: Gitanjali
“Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.”
“Away thou fondling motley humorist,
Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest,
Consorted with these few bookes, let me lye
In prison, and here be coffin'd, when I dye;
Here are Gods conduits, grave Divines; and here
Natures Secretary, the Philosopher;
And jolly Statesmen, which teach how to tie
The sinewes of a cities mistique bodie;
Here gathering Chroniclers, and by them stand
Giddie fantastique Poets of each land.
Shall I leave all this constant company,
And follow headlong, wild uncertaine thee?”
Source: The Satires, Epigrams, and Verse Letters
“Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.”
Source: Introductions and Reviews
“Away with funeral music-set
The pipe to powerful lips-
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!”
“Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!”
“Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.”
“Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.”
“Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.”
“Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.”
“Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.”
Source: Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
“Away with these old wives' tales, with this idea that it's terrible to die before one's time! What time? The time of nature? It made us a loan without a due date. Why complain if it seeks repayment at a time of its choosing? After all, you accepted the loan on these terms!”
Source: On Living and Dying Well
“Away with this prating dotard,” said Front-de Boeuf, “lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone.”
“Blaspheme not the holy saints, Sir Reginald,” said De Bracy, “we shall have need of their aid to-day before yon rascal rout disband.”
“I expect little aid from their hand,” said Front-de-Boeuf, “unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains. There is a huge lumbering Saint Christopher yonder, sufficient to bear a whole company to the earth.”
Source: Ivanhoe
“Away with you, water, destruction of wine!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Catullus (Illustrated)
“Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?”
Source: Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist: The Great Debate (Complete Articles & Essays in One Volume): Words that Traced the Path of the Nation - Founding Fathers’ Political and Philosophical Debate, Their Opinions and Arguments about the Constitution
“Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.”
Source: The works in verse of Mark Akenside M.D.
“Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
“Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.”
Source: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts
“Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.”
“Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“Away, you mouldy rogue, away!”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1-2. Henry V
“Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.”
“Awe and respect are two different things.”
“Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.”
Source: Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
“Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.”
Source: The Messiah of Stockholm
“Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.”
Source: Who is Man?
“Awe-inspiring God.
Amazing God.
Awesome God.
Almighty God.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. ... to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.”
Source: I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
“Awe is not a lens through which to see the world but our sole path to seeing.
Any other lens is not a lens but a veil. And I've come to believe that our beholding—seeing the veils of this world peeled back again and again, if only for a moment—is no small form of salvation. When I speak of wonder, I mean the practice of beholding the beautiful. Beholding the majestic—the snow-capped Himalayas, the sun setting on the sea—but also the perfectly mundane—that soap bubble reflecting your kitchen, the oxidized underbelly of that stainless steel pan. More than the grand beauties of our lives, wonder is about having the presence to pay attention to the commonplace. It could be said that to find beauty in the ordinary is a deeper exercise than climbing to the mountaintop.
When people or groups become too enamoured with mountaintops, we should ask ourselves whether their euphoria comes from love or from the experience of supremacy. For example, whiteness, as a sociological force and practice, loves mountaintops. Being born of an appetite not for flourishing but for domination, it loves the ascent, the conquering. It will tell you about the view from there, but be assured that it is only its view of itself that rouses its spirit. It is about bravado and triumph.
There is nothing wrong with climbing the mountain, but bravado tends to drown out the sound of wonder. Perhaps you've known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.”
“Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.”