A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come back, you and I, and make up for it." "Sure, when I've lost my mind and want to rush screaming through the air in a little car.”
“A pity that she gets so upset about little things, isn't it?"
"Like the time we sneaked the greased piglet into Mrs. Astor's parlor."
Smiling reminiscently, Lillian knelt before the door and worked the pin into the lock. "You know, I've always wondered why Mother didn't appreciate that we did it in her defense. Something had to be done after Mrs. Astor wouldn't invite Mother to her party."
"I think Mother's point was that putting livestock in someone's house does little to recommend us as future party guests."
"Well, I didn't think that was nearly as bad as the time we set off the Roman candle in the store on Fifth Avenue."
"We were obligated to do that, after that salesman had been so rude.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“A pity that those two hearts were not on the same path; the more genuine they were, the more difficult it was for them ever to meet.”
Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.”
“A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.”
Source: The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth
“A pivotal aspect of rapid learning is spaced repetition. Learners strategically review and revisit material at intervals, ensuring the long-term retention of knowledge and skills in their cognitive arsenal.”
“A pivotal lesson I’ve learned throughout my life is that silence is powerful.”
“A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.”
“A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.”
Source: Captivate
“A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.”
“A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility of two thing being in the same location (place). The law of the 'proper' rules in the place: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each situated in its own 'proper' and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability.”
Source: The Practice of Everyday Life
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
“A place can be a living, breathing thing. It can shimmer with joy or with maleficence.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“A place for everything; everything in its place. Whoever said that knew what he was talking about.”
Source: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“A place for everything, everything in its place.”
“A place for the newly weds and nearly deads
I'm counting the stones I hope you know I love you.
Got a lot of friends 6 feet under us.
Counting down the days till we join the party.
Thoughts of your nightmare projected through mine...
Breathing in these lies is no surprise
These evil things are all we know
Lets take these lives where we want to go.
The future is our prize, when the stars align.
Ghouls and ghosts will haunt my soul but they will never take me.
Before I go, I want to show that we can make a difference.
We've got some dumb perceptions.
But I've got the death connection...
All the hate that you have...
Just throw it away
Life is meant for more,
But we're too distracted..
Too caught up in the anger and judgment..
Caught up in the web of lies
I've heard these things keep our blood boiling,
Keeps us alive, and moving forward...
If that's the case I was born a dead man.
And I'm forever a ghost.
Hatred is something that we're brought up to see.
Now everybody's looking at me
I hope they know...
They won't get their satisfaction.”
“A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.”
“A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot”
Source: Pierrot & Columbine
“A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.”
“A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees, they are the ribs of childhood.”
“A place is not really a place without a bookstore.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“A place is only as good as the people in it.”
“A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.”
“A place isn’t good because of its physical features, but because of the people in it.”
“A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.”
“A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.”
“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”
“A place not of moments, but moment. A waiting place.”
Source: We Have Shadows Too
“A place of learning felt dead in the hours of darkness. Full of departed pupils and ended conversations. Their abandoned slates still held the ghosts of words and figures of lessons forgotten. Chairs, like rows of scarred and battered soldiers, stood loyally behind their assigned tables, as was the school master’s orders. Not a thing was amiss.”
Source: The Doom of Balar
“A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony”
Source: A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination
“A place outside time. This is the phrase I overhear my husband using as he tries to describe Florida to his father over the phone. His father lives in a high-rise condo in New Jersey, and he is concerned that we are still down here. On the news, there is constant talk about Florida’s post-pandemic spiral. Speculation about whether the state is experiencing an ecological and spiritual succession. There is talk about militias creeping out of the swamp. There is talk of vandals. There is talk of literal highway robbery. (Our Cro-Magnon governor denies any of this is happening, even though there are reports that some of these forces are amassing in his name.) For the time being, I can ghostwrite my books and shop specials at the grocery and take my niece to the water park, but no one knows how much longer this version of our world will last. “Sometimes I can’t believe a place like this exists,” my husband says as we speed down a gleaming white limestone road that cuts through a palm forest, or ride an airboat around a swollen lake. Florida has a past, as all places do, but these days everyone is uncertain about its future.”
Source: State of Paradise
“A place remote, where footsteps seldom pass,
And dew glistens on the untrodden grass.”
Source: The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 2: The Crab-Flower Club
“A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.”
“A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go.”
“A place to keep all your secrets”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“A place to live is not a place to stay
A place to stay is not a living place”
“A place where a clock's minute and hour hands spread away from its face, flapping like wings. A place where he'd pluck a daisy and watch the petals whirl like the propellers of a helicopter. Where he'd throw a handful of sand, and the grains would buzz away like a swarm of gnats. Where colorful fruits on a tree would burst into flight, and new ones would perch in their place.”
Source: Beyond the Laughing Sky
“A place where exiles gather to talk of passion.”
Source: The Whalebone Theatre
“A place where hope throbbed like a heartbeat”
“a place where hundreds of men had entered for no other purpose than to crank the shank, clean the rifle, jerk the gherkin, make the bald man cry, pound the
flounder, sail the mayonnaise seas, wiggle the walrus, whitewash with Tom
and Huck.”
Source: Gone Girl
“A place where people are accepted for who they are, is where they think better, feel better, work better, and above all live better.”
“A place where soldiers found themselves as rulers, Shakuni thought, can only breed tyrants.”
Source: Sons of Darkness
“A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world”
Source: Serena
“A place where the mind can attain stillness can be found in a great person who has a steady mind. By seeing him (devotionally), others’ mind can also attain stillness, but the chit (internal component of knowledge and vision) may remain unsteady there.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“A place where the mind can attain stillness meaning doing darshan (seeing with the intent of worship) of a great person who has stillness of the mind, can still the mind of other person, however the chit is not steady there.”
“A place where they could be people they never dreamed they'd be.”
“A place where we all go can't be bad.”
“A place where you can see a good view is also a good place to sit and dream!”
“A place where you no longer have to dream is the best place to live!”