A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A major puzzle for which nobody has an answer is this: is there some size at which the planets change their nature from water-rich planets like Neptune, to rocky planets like the Earth? We have found two planets that are the size of the Earth in radius, but they are very close to their host star, so water on the surface would evaporate away.”
“A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“A major reason so many start-ups fail is the flawed assumption that if the product is good enough, consumers will find it, the Field of Dreams philosophy of Build it and they will come. Except a lot of times, they don’t. Founders can be overly optimistic when it comes to acquiring customers instead of better preparing for what is usually a time consuming and expensive aspect of growing a business.”
“a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day”
“A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.”
“A major source of love for a man is the loving reaction that a woman has to his behavior. He has a love tank too, but this is not necessarily filled by what she does for him. Instead it is mainly filled by how she reacts to him or how she feels about him.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.”
“A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.”
“A major theme among the women I treat is their difficulty in asking men to do this or that, to touch them in a certain way. Women are very tender with the male ego. They're afraid of offending their partner's pride because men like to think they know how to perform.”
Source: The Sexual Self
“A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.”
“A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.”
“A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.”
Source: Lectures on Literature
“A majority can do anything.”
“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.”
“A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.”
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.”
“A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.”
“A majority of Hillary Clinton supporters say they are likely to split their ticket. So, they will vote for Hillary Clinton, but they will vote for Republicans for the Senate or governor or some other races down the ballot. But a majority of Donald Trump voters said they wouldn't split their ticket. They're going to stick on the Republican side.”
“A majority of Israelis want to give up the West Bank for peace, and obviously the same thing is desired by the Palestinians. The strong voice of the president of the United States will have a major impact on public opinion, not only in this country, but also in Israel and also in Palestine.”
“A majority of people follow the herd because they find it difficult to veer into the lane that would require their mind to get to work.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were asked how much America should give, the median answers ranged from 5 percent to 10 percent of government spending. In other words, people wanted foreign aid 'cut' to an amount five to ten times greater than the United States actually gives!”
Source: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
“A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.”
“A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.”
“A majority of students who scored an A in CLASS are now struggling to score a D in LIFE.”
Source: Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“A majority of the country finds Hillary Clinton to be neither honest nor trustworthy. She does have that veracity problem with the people. That was very clear.I think it's one of the reasons she wasn't elected president.”
“A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.”
“A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.”
“A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.”
“A majority of Trump's voters were in favor of staying in the Paris Agreement. And if you look at what's really happening in the economy, the economic argument actually is very strongly in favor of the Paris Agreement. There are now twice as many jobs in the solar industry as in the coal industry. Solar jobs are growing 17 times faster than other jobs in the U.S.”
“A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.”
“A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.”
“A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?”
Source: Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
“A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.”
“A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“a majority when united by a common interest or passion cannot be restrained from oppressing the minority, what remedy can be found in a republican Government, where the majority must ultimately decide?”
Source: From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition
“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.”
“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.”
“A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.”
“A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.”
“A malady
Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.”
“A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.”
“A male—even such a male as Tibby—was enough to stop the foolery. The barrier of sex, though decreasing among the civilised, is still high, and higher on the side of women. Helen could tell her sister all, and her cousin much about Paul; she told her brother nothing. It was not prudishness, for she now spoke of “the Wilcox ideal” with laughter, and even with a growing brutality. Nor was it precaution, for Tibby seldom repeated any news that did not concern himself. It was rather the feeling that she betrayed a secret into the camp of men, and that, however trivial it was on this side of the barrier, it would become important on that. So she stopped, or rather began to fool on other subjects, until her long-suffering relatives drove her upstairs.”
Source: Howards End
“A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.”
“A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.”
“A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.”
“A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.”
“A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.”