A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A loud squawking sound split the air. Then another, filling the space with piercing shrieks.
"What is that?" Sophie said. "A velociraptor? A rabid monkey?"
Jasmine shook her head. "Remember the ten-feet warning? The peacocks like to impress the peahens."
"What is a peahen?" Nina asked. What kind of a name was that for anything?
"Peacocks are the male birds with those big plumes," Jasmine explained. "Peahens are the females."
"Why do the men get the pretty feathers?" Sophie asked.
"Like most things, I blame the patriarchy.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.”
Source: Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions
“A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.”
“A loud woman is a powerless woman.”
Source: WURA
“A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.”
Source: The Earl of Louisiana
“A louse in the locks of literature.”
“A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.”
“A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.”
Source: The Dog of the Marriage: Stories
“A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.”
“A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
“A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.”
Source: The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“A love-based psychology views social prejudice as impacting people's well-being, and the promotion of social justice as an important psychological intervention.”
Source: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology
“A love between them that would last until the moment their true love came true.
A love that was so straightforward and so terribly twisted.
The sight of them was so delicate and precious−and so horribly wrong.”
“A love beyond boundaries of space and of time. A love with a purpose. A love that will bring great change.”
Source: Sarthenia
“A love born of fire and sky brought to life by an awakened earth.”
Source: The Dreams of the Descendants
“A love for books is the best indicator of a curious mind.”
Source: A Forgery of Roses
“A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.”
Source: Black Like Me
“A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.”
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”
Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945
“A love grown old is not the love once new.”
“a love language…
good conversation. intense conversation.
wit, banter, chemistry. tell me things.
a curiosity exchange… the kind you
don't want to end.”
“a love language…
i want you to always be able
to love you here.”
“a love language…
love me for the way i'm a wildflower,
and then come closer and love me like wildfire.”
“a love language…
the version of yourself
that you are in love with being
is who i want to love, too”
“A love letter lost in the mail, forgotten, miss delivered and then discovered years later and received by the intended is romantic. A love letter ending up in someone's spam filter is just annoying.”
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
“A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime”
“A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.”
“A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.”
Source: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
“A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.”
“A love of life pulsed into his heart; all he wanted was to rip it out and hand it over. Hold out his own heart in the palm of his hand as an offering to confirm his undying devotion.”
Source: The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall
“A love of nature is a consolation against failure.”
“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness. That is why creation is so manifold. So it is with us human beings. Some are born dynamic and restless; others placid and contemplative…One man’s temperament is full throated with laughter; another’s tinkles with the sad chimes of gentle melancholy. Our physiques are different, and that simple difference oftentimes drives us into conflicting fulfillment of our natures, to action or to thought, to passion or to denial, to conquest or to submission. There is here no fatalism of endowment. We can change and prune and shape the hedges of our being, but we must rebel against the sharp shears being wielded by other hands, cutting off the living branches of our spirits in order to make our personalities adornments for their dwellings.”
“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness.”
“A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.”
Source: Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers
“A love of such terrible strength that it could let go.”
Source: Before the Eyes of Doubt
“A love of the ages.
That's what he had called it. Rhi had been too wrapped up in the desire and him to fully comprehend everything. It wasn't until he turned his back on her that it hit her.”
Source: Passion Ignites
“A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.”
Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945
“A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.”
“A love revolution is forming far out to sea like a series of waves that build on one another until the whole earth is consumed. The first set of waves releases a quickening anointing. The second set of waves, a love revolution. The third set of waves will sweep across the world and release a worldwide revival. I believe that we can position ourselves to catch this incoming set of waves that will release to you a "quickening spirit" or "quickening anointing." It is being released - now. Catch the wave!”
“A love song is just a caress set to music.”
“A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.”
“A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.”
“A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
And we certainly wouldn't write about it.”
Source: My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.”
Source: The English Patient
“A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.”
Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck
“A LOVE THAT COMPLAINS IS AFRAID OF REASONING”