A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.”
“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”
Source: The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War
“A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!”
“A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it’s hungry. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It’s never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart and all you’ll have left is a hateful heart.”
Source: Love, Stargirl
“A little heads up would have been nice.
Hey Heather, since we're history partners and all, I figured I should tell you I'm a murderer. But I'm hot so it's okay.
From now on, Heather was going to do background checks on all her buddies.”
Source: Avow
“A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.”
“A little help with a little smile gives meaning to human life.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“A little holiday spirit lives forever in everyone. Test your own holiday spirit. Give away all of it you can. You'll see, it comes right back to you.”
“A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.”
Source: Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy
“A little hope goes a long way.”
“A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.”
“A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.”
“A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.”
“A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.”
Source: The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart
“A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.”
“A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief.”
Source: The Reappearance of Rachel Price
“A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
“A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.”
Source: The Promised Land
“A little integrity is better than any career.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A little is fine, but the minute you start believing that you've picked the only right one out of the 4,200 or so on offer, you need to get a grip on yourself. Once you start thinking that it's okay to hate someone that chose one of the 4,199 others... snap out of it.”
“A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.”
“A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.”
“A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.”
“A little kindness makes a big difference.”
Source: DISNEY - Maxi Colo
“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”
“A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.”
“A little knowledge can go a long way.”
Source: Jenny Holzer: writing
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The great eleventh-century Nalanda pandit Lama Atisha understood this well, and with a mighty heart of wise compassion he set out to marshal the Buddha‘s eighty-four thousand teachings – found in hundreds of scriptures and thousands of verses – into a logical, sequential, and practical road map to help guide spiritual seekers on the path, from ordinariness to liberation on to full and final awakening. This unique style of teaching came to be called Lam Rim, or the Gradual Path to Enlightenment, and, attesting to its beauty and effectiveness, has been preserved in all lineages and schools of Tibetan Buddhism for the past thousand years.
One of the unique features of the Lam Rim is that it recognizes an alternative to the path of sudden, spectacular enlightenment and instead proposes a more modest, gradual awakening. From the beginning of Tibet‘s history of receiving dharma transmission from India, with the great debates involving the eighth-century Indian scholar Kamalashila, it was clear that for the masses the gradual process of studying, contemplating, and embodying insights over the course of a sustained, lifelong practice would be most appropriate and beneficial. While all methods have their validity and are useful for practitioners of various dispositions, the gradual approach explained in these pages is as relevant to modern students as it was to Tibetans centuries ago. – Geshe Tenzin Zopa”
Source: Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)”
“A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.”
Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
“A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.”
“A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.”
“A little labour, much health.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot old man say: “Yes, it’s the old iambic tetrameter acalectic.” It was the equivalent of a Cornish fisherman pointing out the difference, in practicality incomprehensible dialect, between the Petrachian and the Spenserian sonnet. It was quite correct. Where on earth had he learnt it? His last bit of information was that, in the old days (that wonderful cupboard!) the Arabs used to come to this coast to dive for the murex.”
Source: Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never seen him before, but from the first moment that I looked at him I took his measure, almost by intuition. He was, I suppose, honest enough -- I have always granted him that, bitterly as I have felt toward him. It wasn't his fault that he lacked red blood in his brain, or that he had formed the habit, from long association with abnormal phenomena, of regarding all life as a disease. He was the sort of physician -- every nurse will understand what I mean -- who deals instinctively with groups instead of with individuals. He was long and solemn and very round in the face; and I hadn't talked to him ten minutes before I knew he had been educated in Germany, and that he had learned over there to treat every emotion as a pathological manifestation. I used to wonder what he got out of life -- what any one got out of life who had analyzed away everything except the bare structure.”
Source: The Shadowy Third
“A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.”