A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.”
“A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings us back one hundred years to a magical time in Twain's family life, revealing a house that's brimming with love and laughter, as well as the profound heartbreaks of life. A Mark Twain Christmas only deepens our understanding and respect for both the man and his work.”
“A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.”
“A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too small.”
Source: Ecce Homo
“A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.”
“A heat wave crashes into my body and I tug at the collar of my winter coat. I could take this thing off and probably still sweat. The memories of his mouth moving against mine and how his hands pressed into my body flood my brain. I lick my lips in anticipation. I crave for him to kiss me again, but... “Are you going to call me after?”
A small grin plays on his lips. “You aren’t going to cut me any slack, are you?”
It’s like he’s begging me to tease him, and without thought, I slide back to the braver girl at the bar. “Is that a problem?”
He shakes his head. “Not from you.””
Source: Crash into You
“A heated and often bitter debate persists over whether chronic fatigue syndrome (or myalgic encephalomyelitis (or the postviral fatigue syndrome) is physical or psychological. Although many doctors avoid controversy by stating the obvious—namely, that the mind-body split is artificial and all diseases have physical and mental components—what is really at issue is whether this illness is real or imaginary.”
“A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'”
“A heaven does not know, children on the drive road.”
“A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“A heaven so clear, an earth so calm,
So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air;
And, deepening still the dreamlike charm,
Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.”
“A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.”
Source: Past and Present
“A heavenly light more brilliant than all others sheds its radiance everywhere, and he who was begotten before the morning star and all the stars of heaven, Christ, mighty and immortal, shines upon all creatures more brightly than the sun.”
“A heavenly location for the actions of the savior gods, including the death of Christ, would also have been influenced by most religions' ultimate derivation from astrotheology, as in the worship of the sun and moon. For this dimension of more remote Christian roots, see the books of Acharya S, especially 'Suns of God.”
“A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.”
“A heavenly portal is a spherical opening of light that offers divine protection by which angels and heavenly beings can come and go, without demonic interference. God has designed portals to begin in the third Heaven, travel through the second Heaven, and open upon Earth.”
“A heavenly society is a harmony of many.”
“A heavier task could not have been impos'd,
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.”
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.”
“A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.”
“A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.”
Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost (Sparklesoup Classics)
“A heavy morning of audiences had neither tired nor depressed him. In a black cassock with no decoration, his neck enclosed in a Roman collar, but at ease, he appeared young, slender, elegant, above all available, lively, calm, in possession of himself and also of that French which he evidently enjoyed speaking, unfolding it like a roll of cloth, rather slowly.”
Source: The Pope Speaks: Dialogues of Paul VI with Jean Guitton
“A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.”
“A heavy pressure sinks into my muscles, urging me to storm into her life and fix her problems.”
Source: Dark Notes
“A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English
“a heavy relationship
isn’t the same as a deep love…
a deep love won’t weigh you down,
it will breathe into your soul and
allow you to be free”
“A heavy smell of sour wine, candles and overripe fruit hung in the air. And something else, that bought to mind a mixture of the scents of lilac and gooseberries.”
Source: The Last Wish
“A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.”
Source: Littlewood's Miscellany
“A heavy weight of guilt drove me in my success. I felt like I needed to make up for all the money, stress, and time I had cost my family. So, I pushed myself, trying harder and harder to be a good person and do well in school. I knew I had done them wrong, but without fail, they had always been there to bail me out and help me get back on my feet again.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.”
Source: The devil's progress: A poem
“a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.”
Source: Pop. 1280
“A hedge between keeps friendship green.”
“A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword”
Source: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“A hedgehog flies from the safety of a bush, startling me. It darts past us in a terrible hurry. Kartik nods toward the furry little thing. "Don't mind him. He's off to meet his lady friend."
"How can you be sure?"
"He has on his best hedgehog suit."
"Ah, I should have noticed." I say, happy to be playing this game-any game-with him. I put my hand on the tree's trunk and swing myself around it slowly, letting my body feel gravity's pull. "And why has he worn his best?"
"He's been away in London, you see, and now he has returned to her," Kartik continues.
"And what if she is angry with him for being away so long?"
Kartik circles just behind me. "She will forgive him."
"Will she?" I say pointedly.
"It is his hope that she will, for he didn't mean to upset her." Kartik answers, and I am no longer sure we speak of the hedgehog.
"And is he happy to see her again?"
"Yes," Kartik says. "He should like to stay longer, but he cannot."
The bark chafes against my hand. "Why is that?"
"He has his reasons, and hopes his lady will understand them one day." Kartik has changed direction. He comes around the other side of the tree. We are face to face. A palm of moonglow reaches through the branches to caress his face.
"Oh," I say, heart beating fast.
"And what would the lady hedgehog say to that?" he asks. His voice soft and low.
"She would say..." I swallow hard.
Kartik steps closer. "Yes?"
"She would say," I whisper, "'If you please, I am not a hedgehog. I am a woodchuck.'"
A small smile plays at Kartik's lips.
"He is fortunate to have so witty a lady friend," he says, and I wish I could have the moment back again to play differently.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“A hefty, hooked beak and scary stare can be fierce features!
The shoebill...is one mean feeder. It eats almost anything in the swamp.”
Source: Odd Bods: The World's Unusual Animals
“A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.”
Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from
“A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously.”
Source: The Devils of Loudun
“A hell hound is coming. Howling. A huge explosive shell. A disgusting sugarloaf from the infernal regions.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“A hellish place to be. No one believes you. You were broken, smeared, and lied about.”
“A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.”
Source: A Memoir of Love
“A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.”
“A helper by design and a nurturer by choice”
“A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.”
“A helping hand is better than a waving fist.”
“A Helping Paw has been placed as Finalist in the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards”
Source: A HELPING PAW: Amusing Satirical Observations of Life Featuring Two Witty Cats and an Englishman
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
“A hen shall not be righteous to complain a dog to the God in the sport of prey”
“A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!”