A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.”
Source: Reena and Other Stories
“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.”
Source: When the sky forgot my name
“A person can spend every day of his life finding examples of our spectacular oddness, and if that's what he likes to do, then his life is destined to be full and rich.”
Source: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 108, September 2015
“A person can’t have enough money or more than that for as long as he can’t imagine having it all and losing it all at will. It is the fear of losing money that maintains an individual in a perpetual state of losing it. And this, as much as the desire to accumulate money without the capacity to duplicate the state of having it, maintains one in a repetitive loop imprisoning him in his present
condition, and in which the world around one will deceive him into thinking the reasons for his misfortune are outwards.”
“A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“A person can't regret honesty any more than other unavoidables—a plain face or a poor history.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“A person can't value you more than you value yourself. Set the self worth value bar high and make others meet you there.”
“A person can transfigure the disquiet of solitude in a positive or negative manner. Periods of enforced solitude can cause a person to develop eccentricities of conduct and character, parley with a number of mental aberrations, partake in self-destructive diversions, or use their time productively to contemplate worldly issues and diligently work on self-improvement.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.”
“A person can't change all at once.”
Source: The Stand
“A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.”
Source: The Wedding Officer
“A person can't help their birth.”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.”
“A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.”
“A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.”
“A person cannot be a Marine without honor.”
“A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.”
Source: The Course of Love
“A person cannot be so fearful of failure, hardship, and suffering that they never live.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.”
Source: Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel
“A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.”
Source: A General Theory of Love
“A person cannot exert absolute control over a capricious environment. A wise person concentrates on serenely adjusting to variable permutations in the environs. A personal journey is less anxious if a person resolves to serve as a conscious witness to the natural world and the unfolding lives of family and friends. It is emotionally stabilizing when we no longer delude ourselves with grand fantasies about living and dying, experience life for what it is and stop wishing for a different existence, an altered universe. Nothing good comes from resisting reality.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“A person cannot get through the fog in front of him if first he does not get past the fog he sees when he looks inside him”
Source: Basking in the wrong kind of sunshine
“A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.”
Source: Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China
“A person cannot have it both ways regarding his final standard or ultimate reference point. He presupposes and reasons either according to the authority of God or according to some other authority. Attempting to be neutral about God's ultimate authority in determining what we know is a result of a bad attitude toward God's ultimate authority. It is a way of saying that one does not really need the work of Christ to save him in his reasoning.”
“A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.”
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
Source: The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898
“A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.”
Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
“A person cannot rise while carrying what was never meant to be part of them. The lower self is not the essence of a human being. It is the accumulation of habits, impulses, fears, and desires that form over time. These qualities feel familiar, but they are not foundational. They are layers that obscure the soul’s original clarity. When they dominate, they distort perception. They make a noble soul believe it is ordinary. They make a luminous heart believe it is dim. They make a capable spirit believe it is weak. This forgetfulness is the real fall — not a fall from God, but a fall from one’s own potential.
The qualities that weigh a person down are not simply moral flaws. They are barriers. Arrogance blinds. Jealousy corrodes. Greed consumes. Resentment hardens. Dishonesty fractures the inner world. The hunger for validation enslaves. The refusal to forgive imprisons. These traits do not merely harm others; they diminish the one who carries them. They pull the soul downward, away from its natural orientation toward light.”
“A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.”
“A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning”
“A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.”
“A person causes pain to get pain relief.”
“A person changes in two ways: inspiration or despair. However, by choosing one of the two, you will make the commitment to go all the way, having a purpose for something, increasing goals, and adjusting for mistakes.”
“A person chose their path. Or they made a new one.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.”
“A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.”
“A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.”
Source: An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?”
Source: The Story of Us
“A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.”
“A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.”
Source: 11/22/63
“A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.”
Source: Homeland and Other Stories
“A person could still have what are considered to be “good” intentions and do something that does not benefit others. For example, in this old Anime show called MY Hero Academia, there was this villain called Stain who had really good intentions for heroes: he thought that heroes should live up to their potential and do their hero work out of dedication, not just for fame and money, but to enforce those ideals, he would attempt to murder heroes whom he believed did not live up to those ideals.
His intentions would be morally right by current philosophical standards on morality, but he was destroying members of humanity, which is not beneficial to those members. His intentions didn’t actually follow the duality, because although he intended for humanity to be heroic instead of greedy, he still had spite in himself, so part of his intentions were for the benefit of humanity, but the other part was not. They were, in fact, for the detriment of heroes he disliked. He was not COMPLETELY following the benefit-intention duality.”
Source: The Reformation
“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of them had changed their minds and neither of them could find anything more to say.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“A person could theoretically love and maybe many do but we both know now you can't.”
Source: Angels in America
“A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact lives around, the family and in the community or in the society.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“A person creates meaning in their daily life by employing human reason to live in an ethical and honorable manner, by loving people, and working in a passionate manner to enhance the lives of other people.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person creates what they defend against.”
“A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn’t deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn’t desire in all.”
“A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.”