A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.”
Source: Player Piano
“A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.”
Source: Wars I have seen
“A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.”
“A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.”
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
Source: The Yogi Book
“A nickel is not worth a penny more.”
“A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.”
“A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.”
“A nickname is not supposed to be your only name. I miss Jennifer a bit.”
“A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”
Source: Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters
“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.”
Source: Nostromo
“A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają,
Iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają.”
“A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.”
“A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.”
Source: Dire Steps
“A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.”
Source: Max
“A night-long easterly and a chestnut tree
side-swiping the power lines
has stilled the house to this:
wells of darkness in the hallway,
doors opening onto mine shafts of night
and us,
sitting by firelight,
tipping heels of whisky
against the flames and the dust.
An evening of unfamiliar obstacles,
rooms shrunken to the candle's halo,
the world lessened.
You speak from the shore of the other chair,
saying all you really want is to live
long enough to be good at the oboe
and remembering a fly I saw that morning,
vibrating across a window like a tatooist's needle
towards the slip of space that was air not glass,
I think I understand.
That it is after all the small victories that matter,
that are in the end, enough.”
Source: Skirrid Hill
“A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.”
“A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.”
Source: The Tale of Genji
“A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in the expanse of darkness. After several hours the sheep gradually stopped calling to each other from accross the river banks, and a brittle quiet descended. I desperately wanted to walk down to the water's edge. To see the black river in the moonlight. But a mixture of reason and fear kept me locked along the safe paths high above.”
“A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.”
“A night remains a night regardless of a Negro’s struggles. The moon does not stop shining to mourn a dying Negro; the tide will not alter its course to push ashore a drowning Negro.”
Source: They Called Us Savages
“A night spent in the desert means a night spent in the space!”
“A night spent scraping off the evidence of other people's fun is a wearisome thing.”
Source: The Wicked Girls
“A night spent spooning with your girlfriend isn't nearly so exciting when your uncle is curled up against your other side.”
Source: Ashen Winter
“A night without stars is a night wasted.”
“A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.”
Source: Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East
“A nightmare, I'd told Tamlin.
I was the nightmare.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team.”
“A nihilist is a man who doesn’t acknowledge any authorities, who doesn’t accept a single principle on faith, no matter how much that principle may be surrounded by respect.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“A nimble and adaptable company with healthy cash reserves is better positioned to thrive even through unpredictable circumstances.”
“A no-brainer meaning an obvious decision? Or like an idea to which you have devoted very little brain-power.”
Source: The Gulf
“A No coming from a drunk voice is still a no.
A No coming from a soft voice is still a no.
A No coming from someone who is naked is still a no.
A No coming from someone you know , is still a no.
A No coming from your partner , is still a no.
A No coming from a stranger , is still a no.
A No coming from a child or someone younger than you, Is still a no.
A No coming from someone who is scared, is still a no.
A No coming from someone who is crying , is still a no.”
“A “No Excuses” mindset in your family stems directly from your personal growth. If you are not growing as a person, the first impact will affect your family.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“A No Mentor is there to help you feel confident about saying no to the things you really don’t want to do anyway or to help you finally discover your strong, brave yes in the midst of fear.”
Source: The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
“A No. 1 record is hard to come by.”
“A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'”
“A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.”
Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
“A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.”
Source: As You Think: Second Edition
“A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.”
“A noble book! all men's book!”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
“A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“A noble character loves things unadulterated.”
Source: Love Poems: Love Conquers All
“A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a beautiful world waits to be realized.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“A noble deed is a step toward God.”
“A noble deed is a step towards heaven.”
“A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.”
“A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.”