A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.”
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
“A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.”
“A person, only educated by others, is an uneducated person; without self-education you cannot get an education in the strict sense of the term.”
“A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.”
“A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.”
“A person or organization’s garbage reflects their economic footprint.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“A person ought to be able to marry men or women... . No, I'm serious. Love should be allowed. I'm all for it. Now that I've got a pretty good idea what it is." - Holly Golightly”
“A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.”
“A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.”
“A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.”
“A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
“A person riding a unicycle on a tightrope doesn't worry about being likeable; they're doing something amazing that very few people can do.”
“A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.”
Source: Cosmopolis
“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
Source: Horton Hears a Who!
“A person’s a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will NOT have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”
Source: Horton Hears a Who!
“A person's actions will tell you all that you need to know.”
“A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.”
“A person's assumptions reveal who they are, more than the words they utter.”
“A person’s attitude creates the tone of his or her life. The highest expression of human dignity is to live a purposeful life devoted to principles and exhibiting compassion for other people.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person’s attitude to money determines whom he serves in life.”
“A person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships.”
Source: The Selected Letters, 1972-1973
“A person's being in love often furnishes comic, and sometimes even tragic, phenomena, both because, taken possession of by the spirit of the species, he is now ruled by it, and no longer belongs to himself; in this way his conduct becomes inappropriate to the individual. In the higher degrees of being in love, his thoughts are given such a poetical and sublime touch, even a transcendent and hyperphysical tendency, by virtue of which he appears wholly to lose sight of his real, very physical aim.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“A person’s character is a reflection of one’s many journeys.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“A person's character is a sum of all their travels”
“A person’s character is what it is—and it never lies.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“A person’s demands can often let you know much about his character.”
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“A person's destiny often ends before his death.”
Source: The Joke
“A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.”
Source: Liberian Son
“A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?”
Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“A person's family, Tabitha realized, was the thing that held them up, so that life could still be illuminated in the darkest of times. A family member could be a mouse. A family member could be an Inspector that nobody would ever meet outside the pages of a novel. Depending on the circumstance, a family member might even be discovered in a person you just met.”
Source: Nooks & Crannies
“a person's faults are largely what make him or her likable”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with great leadership.”
Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
“A person’s industrious and creative mindset can overcome great obstacles that besiege their existence. Humankind’s greatest unraveling is our propensity to panic when confronting the pealing silence of nothingness.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.”
Source: The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
“A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die.”
Source: 1Q84
“A person's last moments are an important thing. Yuou can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die.”
“A person's life has so many stories: five we don't know for each one we can tell.”
Source: And It All Came Tumbling Down
“A person's life is measured in years, yet it happens in moments. A single moment can end a person's life or change it forever. You're pregnant. I love you. It's an opportunity. They didn't survive.”
Source: Outrun: Introducing Jessie Baltimore
“A person's life isn't orderly ...it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the future doesn't exist. Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.”
“A person's life-journey is like an iceberg.
What we can see, is but a fraction of what is present underneath the surface. Judgments are but mere frivolities that humanity is paying for, very dearly. We cannot afford to judge; neither ourselves nor anyone else.”
“A person's mental capacity can enable him or her to become a vigorous human being because he or she will be persistent to tolerate a lot of physical or mental weight that are loaded upon him or her.”
“A person’s mind is way more attractive than the person’s body. Intellectual people are sexy!”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“A person’s moral decision of what is right and wrong is not the sheer application of a mathematical principle. Many variables come into play when examining how to conduct a person’s life. A person experiences reality inside their head and we premise our personal version of reality upon the accumulation of knowledge. Decision-making entails the identification and application of personal knowledge in a just and virtuous manner. The only measure of personal integrity is whether a person derives their own judgment in a rational manner and then determinedly implements the moral judgment regardless of the possibility of encountering the derision and scorn of other people.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation.”
Source: The Sugar Frosted Nutsack