A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A kite only flies if it’s tethered.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“A Kite that stays rooted to the base, with a string, flies high, against the winds; the one without it just flows purposelessly with the winds, falling aimlessly. A leader keeps that string rooted.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.”
Source: Geist and Zeitgeist: Six Essays by Hermann Broch
“A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.”
Source: The Fireside Sphinx
“A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.”
“A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.”
Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
“A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.”
“A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself”
“A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”
Source: Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott
“A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.”
“A knife at his throat; cruel fingers in his hair. "Queers do not belong on my perfect Court. I will bleed this out of him within a week."
Stupid, beautiful Kevin had tried his best to defend him.
After all, he was blindingly obsessed with the Trojans; it was reasonable to assume Jean would also find a Big Three team captivating.
He'd only dug Jean's grave deeper with that argument.
Riko hadn't even known Jeremy was a factor then - it wasn't the Trojans he'd caught Jean staring at with such unsubtle and idiotic devotion.
Riko hadn't wasted his breath correcting Kevin, not wanting to give him any more reasons to protect their worthless third wheel.
Jean hadn't tried either; what good would it do to confess to such an oblivious fool?”
Source: All for the game: Trilogia
“A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.”
Source: Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot
“A knife can only be sharpened so far before all you are doing is wearing it away.”
Source: Starsight
“A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.”
Source: Mount Analogue
“A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.”
“A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.”
“A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.”
“A knife plunged into the center
of summer. Air
and terror, which become teeth together.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.”
Source: Orphan Sky
“A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants to be a stallion—" He dissolved in a flurry of white smoke even before I could finish the sentence. Ha! Victorious again!" Yeah," Jim drawled while I remade the bed and fluffed up my pillows. "Aisling, two; sexy, naked men who just want to give her the pleasure of a lifetime with no commitment, zero.”
“A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“A knight ending is really a pawn ending.”
“A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause”
Source: Don Quixote
“A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.”
Source: 论语
“A knight will give a lady a ring from his hand and take a kiss from her lips, when he wishes to love her and serve her all his days," she recited, as she had when he was small. She pulled the ring from the chain and held it out to him. "This ring is the knight's who swore to serve me. Take it. One day you may find a lady to wear it.”
Source: Pendragon's Heir
“A Knock Down Does Not Have To Be A KnockOut”
Source: Wake Up The Winner In You: Your Time Is Now
“A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.”
“A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard III
“A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.”
Source: The Robots of Dawn
“A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.”
“A know-it-all attitude and presentation annihilates credibility.”
Source: The Wisdom of Loki: The Art of Lying in the Natural World
“A know-it-all. He is a know-it-all. Eggs and peculiar. Animated and audacious. Astute, abnormally knowledgeable. An optimist. Pet-whisperer and the definition of a people’s person. A hopeless—emphasis on hopeless—romantic. But that is Caspian Marks. Oh, my. He is my Caspian Marks.”
Source: Counting Stars
“A know-it-all politician is far worse than a foolish politician.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“A know-it-all poses to know everything, so he will therefore tell you anything; although his brain forgets that one crucial thing, which is that other people, too, have brains.”
“A know that some rich, white looking people don't want to have anything to do with the likes of us. But this world is a big place and have enough space for all the different race of people that God make — black, white, yellow, red and all the ones that don't know where they belong, like the girl you fight with at school. Don't let anybody make you feel less than what you are. Work hard and do your best and even though I not a Christian but God must help you one way of the other.”
Source: Inner City Girl
“A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.”
“A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.”
“A "knowing" public is a consenting public. We know what is really going on. Time to do something about it.”
“A knowing smile curves his lips as he slowly shakes his head at me. “God help you, little rebel.” I raise my eyebrows in question, fighting a smile as well. “And why is that?” “Because you’re mine now. Body, mind, heart, and soul. And I will never get enough of you.” Shifting my hand from his wing to the back of his neck, I yank his mouth down to mine in a possessive kiss. “Likewise, Shadow of Death.”
Source: Court of Lies and Deceit
“A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.”
Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)
“A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.”
“A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.”
“A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.”
“A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.”
“A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.”
“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.”