A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I'm going to say, 'ouch.' If I pinch your right nipple, you're going to say 'ouch.' A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.”
“A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.”
“A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.”
“A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it”
Source: North Child
“A pine tree’s branches are pliable, so they will flex downward rather than snap under the weight of accumulating snow. This is Strength through Flexibility.”
Source: The Arrows of Zen
“A pine tree standeth lonely
In the North on an upland bare;
It standeth whitely shrouded
With snow, and sleepeth there.
It dreameth of a Palm tree
Which far in the East alone,
In the mournful silence standeth
On its ridge of burning stone.”
“A pineapple is a compilation of berries that grow and fuse together. When joined, they create a single fruit. And within each eyelet, contains a location where a flower may grow. I see the Creator of all existence as the crown on a pineapple, and all religions of the world as the spiky eyelets, where each eyelet symbolizes a different religion or race under the same crown. Each garden of faith may have different perspectives of God, yet every garden belongs to the same God.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A ping on my windowpane intruded into my pity party.”
“A pink razor is like a mouse, where ever it is the pussy will follow.”
Source: Eating the Cheshire Cat
“A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.”
“a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.”
“A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.”
“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.”
“A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.”
“A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.”
“A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.”
“A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.”
“A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.”
“A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.”
“A Pioneer is one that goes that extra mile...and then a little further.”
Source: The Line and the Dot: Alternative Thoughts on Vision
“A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.”
Source: O Pioneers
“A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.”
“A pior das solidões é a dentro da cabeça.”
Source: Rosa
“A pious fraud.
[Lat., Pia fraus.]”
“A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.”
“A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.”
“A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.”
Source: George Gissing's Commonplace Book: A Manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library
“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”
“A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.”
Source: Not That it Matters
“A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“A pipe is greater than a bong. Because when you're smoking a pipe at least it makes you look like you're thinking about something.”
“A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.”
“A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.”
“A pissant is somebody who thinks he’s so damn smart, he can never keep his mouth shut. No matter what anybody says, he’s got to argue with it. You say you like something, and, by God, he’ll tell you why you’re wrong to like it. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. No matter what you say, he knows better.”
“A pissy werelion was rather difficult to live with.”
Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel
“A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.”
“A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.”
“A pitcher is not a ballplayer.”
“A pitcher is only as good as his legs.”
“A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.”
“A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.”
“A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.”
“A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.”
“A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.”
“A pittifull looke askes enough.”
“A pittifull mother makes a scald head.”
“A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.”
“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
“A pity it is evening, yet
I do love the water of this spring
seeing how clear it is, how clean;
rays of sunset gleam on it,
lighting up its ripples, making it
one with those who travel
the roads; I turn and face
the moon; sing it a song, then
listen to the sound of the wind
amongst the pines.”