A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.”
“A program that has not been tested does not work.”
Source: C Plus Plus Programming Language
“A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.”
“A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.”
“A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!”
“A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice “de-learning” and “relearning” all the time.”
Source: Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
“A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.”
“A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.”
“A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.”
“A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.”
“A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.”
“A progressive revolution that suddenly appears and covers the whole country is like a magical fog that suddenly appears and covers the whole forest! People all of a sudden find themselves in the mysterious atmosphere of an advanced world that will exist in the future!”
“A progressive society is a self-scrutinizing society.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.”
“A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.”
Source: Ice Breakers for Project Managers: Jokes, Quotes, and Brainteasers
“A project is like love; it has clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.”
“A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.”
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations
“A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.”
“A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?”
Source: Ravishing Lol Stein
“A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.”
“A prominent israeli writer, Sami Michael, once told of a long car journey with a driver. At some point, the driver explained to Michael how important, indeed how urgent, it is for us Jews “to kill all the Arabs.” Sami Michael listened politely, and instead of reacting with horror, denunciation, or disgust, he asked the driver an innocent question: “And who, in your opinion, should kill all the Arabs?”
“Us! The Jews! We have to! It’s either us or them! Can’t you see what they’re doing to us?”
“But who, exactly, should actually kill all the Arabs? The army? The police? Firemen, perhaps? Or doctors in white coats, with syringes?”
The driver scratched his head, pondered the question, and finally said, “We’ll have to divvy it up among us. Every Jewish man will have to kill a few Arabs.”
Michael did not let up: “All right. Let’s say you, as a Haifa man, are in charge of one apartment building in Haifa. You go from door to door, ring the bells, and ask the residents politely, ‘Excuse me, would you happen to be Arabs?’ If the answer is yes, you shoot and kill them. When you’re done killing all the Arabs in the building, you go downstairs and head home, but before you get very far you hear a baby crying on the top floor. What do you do? Turn around? Go back? Go upstairs and shoot the baby? Yes or no?”
A long silence. The driver considers. Finally he says, “Sir, you are a very cruel man!”
This story exposes the confusion sometimes found in the fanatic’s mind: a mixture of intransigence with sentimentality and a lack of imagination.”
Source: שלום לקנאים
“A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He thoughtfully replied, ‘I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer.’”
Source: Live the Good Life
“A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.”
“A prominent person would utilize his or her talent to inspire and benefit others instead of excessively craving for fame and wealth to only benefit him or herself.”
“A promiscuidade que de há pouco mais dum século se tem feito com a perda do conhecimento das origens, tem sido o motivo da irregularidade e polverisação de afectos em que desharmonizam os portuguezes. Ainda bem que existe um caminho d'apartamento, uma maneira d'aclarar, esse caminho é a separação em ódios políticos, a divisão em partidos!”
Source: A Invasão dos Judeus
“A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.”
“A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?”
Source: Embassytown
“A promise is a bird that can never be set free.”
Source: The Last Witch: Fear & Fire
“A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.”
“A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it creates a link and the recipient identifies it as a mutual bond. A gift, however, is tangible and a promise is not. Eventually, a promise can be expounded as misunderstood, or misheard or it is simply over and done. If misheard, the social bond is to be put into question. If forgotten, it can be reminded but this is embarrassing. If elapsed, it is one of those broken promises that infest countless relationships. ( "Promised me a breeze of freedom" )”
“A promise is a promise. Five words. After ten years. There’s so much more that needs to be said beyond those seven syllables. But I took one look at her face, and the rest seemed unimportant.”
Source: A Thousand Miles
“A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.”
Source: The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
“A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.”
“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”
“A promise made must be a promise kept.”
“A promise made should be a promise kept.”
Source: A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America
“A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“A promise must never be broken.”
Source: Works
“A promise to a dead man is sacred!”
Source: Alone
“A promise unkept will take a man's mind.”
Source: Battleborn
“A promise was once made,
He asked me to unify the world.
Ever since, I have been on duty,
My life isn't mine but of the world.
If I fail, you cross off one human.
If I succeed, you witness civilization.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?”
“A promotion usually increases the amount of money we can spend on our loved ones, but decreases the amount of time we can spend with our loved ones.”
“A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.”
“A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.”
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.”
“A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.”