A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.”
“A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.”
“A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”
Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.”
“A heresia e a blasfêmia persistiam como disfarces pomposos para oprimir a liberdade da palavra, a qual sempre escolhe assuntos que provocam implicitamente nos opressores um mal-estar secreto.”
Source: The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants
“A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes”
“A heretic may be anyone whose outlook someone else dislikes or denounces. According to tradition, a heretic is one who deviates from the true faith. But what defines that "true faith"? Who calls it that, and for what reasons?”
Source: The Gnostic Gospels
“A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.”
“A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.”
Source: How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House
“A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind: To which are Added a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth; and Short Essays on Various Subjects
“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.”
Source: Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile
“A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.”
Source: Deltora Quest #1: The Forests of Silence
“A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.”
“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.”
“A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.”
“A hero does not choose her trials”
Source: Starsight
“A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.”
“A hero helps you resolve the tragedy of your existence in a world that owes you nothing, not by destroying the obstacles you face but by showing you how to take them on with integrity.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.”
“A hero in one age will be a hero in another.”
“A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.”
Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
Source: John Christopher: Storm and Stress
“A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.”
“A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.”
Source: MOSES AND MONOTHEISM
“A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A hero is a slave to his public image. To stay a hero, the world requires you to support their ever-changing notions of right and wrong. You’re not allowed to come to your own conclusions. You cannot have your own ideas of good and evil. If you follow your own conscience even once,
you get crucified. All the love the world promised you vanishes, and they hate you worse than any villain”
Source: Advent 9
“A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.”
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
“A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.”
“A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.”
“A HERO... IS... FOREVER.
Adieu, Snotlout.
I could not have done this without you.
I carry you with me, every step I take, every decision I make. You are part of my blood, and I would never have gotten this far without you.
We shall meet again, in a better world than this one.”
Source: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero
“a hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.”
-Cedric Diggory-”
Source: James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
“A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas."
-Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)”
Source: Nick of Time
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“A hero is not defined by the outcome of a single contest but by the enduring courage to stand for a cause greater than self.”
“A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight.”
“A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.”
“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”
“A hero is simply someone who does something the gods fancy. Their own motives matter not.”
Source: The Scholar's Gambit
“A hero is smiling at the moment another hero is telling jokes.”
“A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.”
“A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.”
“A hero is someone right who doesn't change.”
“A hero is someone we can admire without apology.”
“A hero is someone who is selfless.”
Source: Good Mischief