A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.”
“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”
“A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it. Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right.”
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”
“A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.”
“A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.”
“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”
“A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.”
“A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood”
“A person learns about the world by interpreting and cogitating upon personal experiences and by examining other people’s choices and philosophical perspective. We also learn by communicating with other people including sharing our stories with a receptive audience”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
Source: 1Q84
“A person learns to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.... A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
“A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.”
Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow
“A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.”
“A person like me... isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.”
“A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.”
“A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.”
Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“A person lives one way and he thinks all people live that way because there is no other way”
“A person living an artistic existence refuses to surrender to the winds of time, continues singing and dancing into the teeth of the harshest storm, and marvels in all of the delightful treasures of simply being.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus”
“A person looking at a complex antique shop reminds us this: Every person has a simple appearance, very simple, but inside our head is as complex as an antique shop! The person who looks inside that shop is actually looking inside himself!”
“A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.”
“A person made time for people and things they cared about.”
Source: Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe
“A person may appear a fool and yet not be one. They may only be guarding their wisdom carefully.”
“A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.”
Source: Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920
“A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.”
“A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.”
Source: Mortal Questions
“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.”
Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...
“A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.”
“A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.”
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
Source: John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom
“A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.”
Source: THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH
“A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.”
“A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.”
“A person may forget 90% of what a leader says, but he will never forget how the leader lives.”
“A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!”
“A person may hold his own beliefs and creeds to be dearest, and nourish them with all his might, but the moment he starts preaching the exclusive greatness and dominance over all other systems of beliefs and creeds, the world begins to plunge into a death trap.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.”
Source: Heart Crush
“A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.”
“A person may not want any more of his cake; but that is no reason for giving it away.”
Source: Les Misérables
“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; [that is,] those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.”
“A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.”
“A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.”
“A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?”
“A person may use his fundamental right to communicate whatever he likes, but the people like his point as per their personal choice only and not necessarily that which is always fundamentally right.”
“A person meets thousands of different people across a lifetime, a woman thousands of different men, of all shades, and many more if she constantly passes through different parts of the world. Even so, of the many different people a person on average meets it is rare for one to fit almost immediately in harmony and general interest. For all the choices available the odds are enormous.The miracle is there to be grasped.”
Source: Eucalyptus
“A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.”