A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.”
“A mutual friend knew that we were both [with Iman Abdulmajid] on our own, with broken marriages and with children. We were brought to dinner one night. . . . It was absolutely instantaneous. I couldn't get her out of my mind . . . sleepless nights - real 18-year-old stuff.”
“A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for the rest of their lives. But in their correspondence they tended to avoid the most controversial issues, such as slavery.”
“A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions.”
Source: The new money dynamics
“A mutual misunderstanding.”
Source: Complete Shorter Fiction
“A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.”
“A my z księciem wojewodą wileńskim powiedzieliśmy sobie, że z tego sukna musi się i nam tyle zostać w ręku, aby na płaszcz wystarczyło; dlatego nie tylko nie przeszkadzamy ciągnąc, ale i sami ciągniemy.”
Source: Potop
“A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.”
“A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.”
“A myriad of small red violet-colored animals, like rabbits, burst out of the trees, surrounding the guardian god. Their long bushy tails, with specks of black among the silver hairs, remind me of the squirrels of my home world, Uhna. Their two-inch-long dark brown pedicles remind me of the female reindeer from Arrov’s home world, A’ice. But I’ve never seen rabbits that have green flower stalks with tiny white flowers entwined around their furry bodies, while A’nima magic clings to them.
A tiny critter hops to me and rises on its hind legs to sniff my hand, its large green eyes glinting with surprising intelligence. Long whiskers move as its nose sniffles, then sneezes.”
Source: Proud Pada
“A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...”
Source: The Dream Jumper's Promise
“A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.”
“A mysterious, ineffable charm had already bound them. An inherent magic is the only thing that could transform love at first sight into such hungry passion.”
Source: Under the summer sun
“A mysterious night is superior to other nights because the mysterious night awakens your mind and awakens your spiritual side!”
“A mysterious stair was discovered in a village. Some curious people went up the stairs but never returned. Villagers concluded that monsters are sitting up there devouring anybody who climbs up.
In fact, it was a stair to heaven. Nobody wanted to return from there. When one or two people returned and told the truth, villagers called them agents of monsters who were trying to lure the villagers in the name of heaven.
Your mind is a powerful machine. It can serve your doubts as well as your faith. It’s up to you how you use it.”
“A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.”
“A mystery is an unknown puzzle to solve like lies and secrets that you need to know. Lies and secrets that are like a cancer in our soul. They eat away what is good and leave only DESTRUCTION behind. A mystery to discover which makes life more COMPLICATED as it seems to be.”
“A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.”
“A mystery is only a fact in disguise”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“A mystery is solved with a story.”
“A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.”
“A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.”
Source: Young Men and Fire
“a mystery, unfathomable,
a juice, undrinkable,
a story, unwritable,
life.”
“A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.”
Source: Complete Poems
“A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.”
“A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.”
“A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.”
“A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.”
“A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.”
“A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.”
Source: I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego
“A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.”
“A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.”
“A mystical path requires courage as you must take a first step of faith so that the second may be of science. ☥”
Source: Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus
“A mystical rain calming a boisterous night. A sensuous breeze sending leaves into flight. A beautiful flower reminding one of a more treasured hour. A wandering mind wanting for a better world.”
Source: Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
“A mystical symphony permeates my senses and a holy lullaby embraces me.”
Source: Back To Grace: Spiritual Poetry & Reflections
“A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.”
Source: The Sherlockian
“A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.”
“A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either inspirational or despairing. It is a story in which I cast myself; it is my inner cinema, the motion picture of my inner reality - one that moves all the time. No diagnosis can fix the myth, no cure can settle it, because our inner life is precisely what, in us, will not lie still.”
Source: Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience
“A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.”
Source: PO: a device for successful thinking
“A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.”
“A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.”
“A myth is a metaphor oblivious of itself”
Source: Psychological Investigations
“A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.”
“A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.”
“A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.”
Source: The Cry for Myth
“A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.”
“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.”