A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”
“A person has to be busy to be alive.”
“A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.”
“A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.”
Source: Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8
“A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.”
Source: Girl in Blue
“A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.”
Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”
“A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.”
“A person has to live in a house for it not to break down.”
“A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.”
“A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.”
“A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.”
“A person hears only what they understand.”
“A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.”
“a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.”
Source: Speak, Memory: A Memoir
“A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.”
Source: The fall
“A person I need to manage cannot be my friend. At best he or she can only be an acquaintance. Even such a title is an honor to such. Only my friends are allowed into my holy of holies. My place of shalom.”
“A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.”
“A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.”
“A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they say at the end of life the beginning returns with renewed vividness, as though you had sailed all the way around the world and were going back into the darkness from which you came.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“A person in my position has to restrain himself.”
“A person in public without a mask during a pandemic is a walking septic tank.”
“A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.”
Source: Scotch-Irish: A Social History
“A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.”
“A person in torment is not going to give you anything.”
“A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.”
“A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.”
Source: The Journey Home
“A person is a collage of people warring to become a portrait.”
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.”
“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”
“A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.”
“A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.”
“A person is a person through others. This truth extends across time and space. We are through those who have come before us, those who have come with us and those who will come after us. Spirit possession, at the heart of Chimurenga, is an exercise in timelessness. It is those in the present communing with those in the past about the future concerning those who will come. Chimurenga has always been the intergenerational spirit of African self-liberation. It is not linear, it is bones that go into the earth and rise again and again.”
Source: These Bones Will Rise Again
“A person is a point of view. Every person you meet is a creative artist who takes the events of life and, over time, creates a very personal way of seeing the world. Like any artist, each person takes the experiences of a lifetime and integrates them into a complex representation of the world. That representation, the subjective consciousness that makes you you, integrates your memories, attitudes, beliefs, convictions, traumas, loves, fears, desires, and goals into your own distinct way of seeing. That representation helps you interpret all the ambiguous data your senses pickup, helps you predict what’s going to happen, helps you discern what really matters in a situation, helps you decide how to feel about any situation, helps shape what you want, who you love, what you admire, who you are, and what you should be doing at any given moment. Your mind creates a world, with beauty and ugliness, excitement, tedium, friends, and enemies, and you live within that construction. People don’t see the world with their eyes; they see it with their entire life.
Cognitive scientists call this view of the human person “constructionism.” Constructionism is the recognition, backed up by the last half century of brain research, that people don’t passively take in reality. Each person actively constructs their own perception of reality. That’s not to say there is not an objective reality out there. It’s to say that we have only subjective access to it.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“A person is a process, one that leads to death.”
“A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge. Once he thinks he knows, only then he becomes an ignorant.”
“A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.”
“A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.”
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.”
“A person is as much a thought when alive as he or she will be when dead.”
“A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.”
Source: Let Me Tell You a Story: Life Lessons from Unexpected Places and Unlikely People
“A Person is because of People.”
“A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.”
“A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.”
“A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.”
“A person is bound to experience troubling doubts when attempting to forge a viable philosophy for living. When we are young, the world appears as a dream, no desire is unattainable, and no goal is impossible. We do not entertain the notion that the world will blunt our passionate aspirations, we assume that the world will yield to our resolute will. Misfortune, poverty, illness, and death crush a person’s hopes, awakening us to parts of oneself and the world that we previously denied. When fate has spoken harshly we initially feel ruined, life appears as a bleak wasteland. We must then chose to accept a misery ridden existence or rally the courage and fortitude to turn our thoughts from bitterness and regrets, surrender vain notions that we are somehow special and immune from the terrors of a life when reality does not care a wit for our survival.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls