A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser.”
“A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.”
“A hilarious, honest, heartfelt look at what it means to take on a family that isn't your own...Izzy Rose rocks it.”
“A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war--killing people around the world, many of them women and children.”
Source: False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
“A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.”
Source: Letters to His Wife and Friends
“A hint of a frown touched his mouth. “I told you that wasn’t about feeding.” “No, it was about you making your point.” I skewered a bite and chewed. “Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A?”
Source: One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“A hint of fire in his eyes, he glanced up at her. "If that displeases you, lass, I can leave you here for the next savior who comes along.”
Source: Surrender
“A hint of jealously once in a while is not only natural but a compliment therefore, always smile and accept it graciously for it shows they care...”
“A hint of sanity and heaps of insanity lead to success. I’m extremely insane.”
“A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice. “And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It’s left me rearranged inside, and I don’t have a map.”
“A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.”
“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”
“A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!”
“A hipster is someone who's very aware of his style.”
“A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.”
Source: Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures
“A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore”
“A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.”
“A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.”
“A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.”
“A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.”
“A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“A historian reveals that excavations at Adichanalu determine that Thirai Meelar which means sea farers traveled across continents. It was considered a talent to be able to return back to the home turf. The reading led toward another instance of beauty. Tamil sailors used the same technique as sea-turtles to return home. Sea-turtles floated along sea currents but did not swim in oceans. I sit like a harbinger of tides along the coast, unaware of the migration or home, in search of sea-turtles.”
“A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.”
“A historian who doesn't want to make history is a bad historian.”
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?”
Source: Neptune's Brood
“A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the man's brain did not reject it. That pretty much confirms what women have been saying about men.”
“A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.”
“A historical fact, though we may have a feeling of trust and solidity about the word, is one of the most elusive things in the world.
[How to Read a Book (1972), P. 231]”
“A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.”
“A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.”
“A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.”
“A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.”
“A history made of 'ifs' - such is the life of mortal men" The Gospel According to Lzarus”
Source: The Gospel According to Lazarus
“A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization
“A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.”
“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.”
“A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.”
“A history of the working class in the United States should, first of all, give a sense of what is meant by "the working class in the United States." It means most of us who live in the United States of America-which, unfortunately, has not been the focus of a majority of history books that claim to tell the story of this country. This doesn't make sense because without the working class there would be no United States. (From a certain point of view, this history book deficiency does make sense, given the biases built into our business-dominated culture.)”
Source: Short History of the U.S. Working Class
“A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.”
“A história da população negra no Brasil, que, após séculos de escravização, viram migrantes europeus receberem incentivos do Estado brasileiro, inclusive com terras, enquanto a negritude formalmente liberta pela Lei Áurea era deixada à margem.”
Source: Pequeno Manual Antirracista
“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde.
Por exemplo, a primeira fase é caracterizada pela pergunta "Como vamos comer?", a segunda pela pergunta "Por que comemos?" e a terceira pela pergunta "Onde vamos almoçar?".”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“A história de uma família parece mais com um mapa topográfico do que com um romance, e uma biografia é a soma de todas as eras geológicas que você atravessou. Escrever-se a si mesma significa lembrar que você nasceu com raiva e que foi um despejo de lava denso e contínuo, antes que sua crosta endurecesse e rachasse para deixar aflorar uma espécie de amor, ou que a força inútil do perdão viesse polir e achatar qualquer formação de um vale em você. Reler-se a si mesma significa inventar aquilo pelo que você passou, detectar cada estrato de que está composta: os cristais de júbilo ou de solidão no fundo, as consequências de uma lembrança que evaporou, tudo o que foi escavado e depois inundado, apenas para se dar conta de que não é verdade que o tempo cura — há uma fratura que jamais será preenchida. A única coisa que o tempo faz é carregar consigo o pó e ervas daninhas, de modo que aquela fissura seja coberta até se transformar numa paisagem distinta, distante, quase de fábula, na qual se fala um idioma que não se conhece mais, tão verossímil quanto o élfico. Paisagens sobre as ruinas da sua família, e você se dá conta de que algumas palavras foram apagadas, mas outras salvas, algumas desapareceram, enquanto outras farão sempre parte da sua reverberação, e então finalmente se chega à margem do seu pai e da sua mãe, depois de anos acreditando que morrer ou enlouquecer fosse o único jeito de estar à altura deles. É lá então que você entende que tudo no seu sangue é uma chamada e você é somente eco de uma mitologia pregressa.”
Source: La straniera
“A história liberal diz-me que procure a liberdade para me exprimir e para me realizar. Mas tanto o ‘eu’ como a liberdade são quimeras mitológicas saídas de contos de fadas dos tempos antigos. O liberalismo tem uma noção particularmente confusa de ‘livre-arbítrio’. Os seres humanos, evidentemente, têm vontade, têm desejos e, por vezes, são livres de cumprir esses desejos. Se por ‘livre-arbítrio’ entendermos a liberdade de fazer o que se deseja, então, sim, os seres humanos têm livre-arbítrio. Mas se ‘livre-arbítrio’ significar a liberdade de escolher aquilo que se deseja, então, não, os seres humanos não têm livre-arbítrio.”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“A história mostra claramente que quando há escassez de empregos, o receio de ainda mais desemprego torna-se uma ferramenta poderosa nas mãos dos políticos e dos interesses especiais que se opõem à ação sobre o ambiente.”
Source: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
“A história é dor, a verdadeira história é a dos gritos.”
Source: El-Rei Junot
“A história é fundamental, uma vez que são os processos históricos que, através da deriva institucional, geram as diferenças que podem vir a tornar-se importantes durante as conjunturas críticas. Estas são, em si mesmas, pontos de viragem históricos. E os círculos vicioso e virtuoso implicam que é necessário estudarmos a história, para compreendermos as diferenças institucionais que se estruturaram historicamente.”
Source: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.”