A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A person without an Apple watch is perfectly content with his present watch but when he sees his friends buying the watch, he will hanker for an Apple watch. The endless cycle of wanting, getting, and wanting again is part of the plot of Capitalism. It is the way Capitalism creates jobs. The only antidote is Buddhism that holds that people might be happier by renouncing desire rather than by striving to satisfy desire. But then how can the economy create enough jobs in a Buddhist society of "less is more."”
“A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.”
“A person without curiosity may as well be dead.”
Source: Summer Sisters: A Novel
“A person without even knowledge of the history becomes history.”
“A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.”
“A person without patience, sooner or later, becomes a patient.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“A person without regrets is a nincompoop.”
“A person without regrets is called a corpse.”
Source: Unmanned
“A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.”
“A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.”
“A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy”
“A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.”
“A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.”
“A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.”
Source: Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America
“A person you loved has used you and hurt you, but there are more people to love, new paths to pursue, and noble tasks that only you can accomplish-for you and for your entire kingdom. If you must dwell on something dwell on that.”
Source: Journey to the Fringe
“A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.”
Source: The Law of Success
“A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.”
“A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.”
“A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information”
“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”
Source: Shakespeare's Secret
“A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.”
Source: Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker
“A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.”
“A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.”
“A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.”
“A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.”
“A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.”
Source: The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy
“A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“A person's fate is their own temper.”
“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.”
“A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.”
“A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.”
Source: Summer of my German soldier
“A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others”
“A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.”
“A person's level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.”
“A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.”
Source: Trust the Process
“A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.”
Source: Mr. Palomar
“A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.”
“A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.”
“A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.”
“A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.”
“A person's life is what their thoughts make it.”
“A person's life persuades better than his word.”
“A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.”
“A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.”
“A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.”
Source: Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
“A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.”
“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”
“A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.”