A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“A proposito: vi amo.”
Source: Les Disparus du Clairdelune
“A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.”
“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”
Source: The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers
“A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.”
“A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.”
“A prospect is with us and he stands by his bike as Dad, Eli and Pigpen take off their cuts and lay them on the back. Pigpen flashes that I've-been-judged-mentally-insane-by-a-court smile at the prospect.”
Source: Walk the Edge
“A prosperidade ocorreu quando os frutos da produtividade foram amplamente partilhados; a inimizade, a turbulência política e mesmo a guerra declarada foram o resultado de uma desigualdade crescente. É óbvio que a generosidade é a estratégia robusta.”
Source: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
“A prosperous person programmes prosperous thinking into his or her mind.”
“A prosperous soul is one that's embodied in love. Your level of forgiveness and love for mankind is a direct indication of your eternity.”
“A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.”
Source: Pineapple Grenade: A Novel
“A prostitute is a decent worker like the rest of us, only she can’t fake what she is doing.”
“A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car”
“A protected group or protected class is a group of people qualified for special protection by a law, policy, or similar authority. In the United States, the term is frequently used in connection with employees and employment.
U.S. federal law protects individuals from discrimination or harassment based on the following nine protected classes: sex, race, age, disability, color, creed, national origin, religion, or genetic information (added in 2008). Many state laws also give certain protected groups special protection against harassment and discrimination, as do many employer policies. Although it is not required by federal law, state law and employer policies may also protect employees from harassment or discrimination based on marital status or sexual orientation. The following characteristics are "protected" by United States federal anti-discrimination law:
Race – Civil Rights Act of 1964
Religion – Civil Rights Act of 1964
National origin – Civil Rights Act of 1964
Age (40 and over) – Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Sex – Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Civil Rights Act of 1964
Sexual orientation and gender identity as of Bostock v. Clayton County – Civil Rights Act of 1964
Pregnancy – Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Familial status – Civil Rights Act of 1968 Title VIII: Prohibits discrimination for having or not having children
Disability status – Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Veteran status – Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
Genetic information – Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
Individual states can and do create other classes for protection under state law.”
“A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.”
Source: THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM: From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America
“A protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work.”
“A protest is not principally a sacrifice made for some alternative, more just future; it is an inconsequential redemption of the present.
The problem is how to live time and again with the adjective inconsequential.”
Source: Bento's Sketchbook
“A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.”
“A protest should be undeniable. It should not ask the oppressed to become scholars of your rhetoric. It should not demand a prerequisite reading list before it makes sense. A protest is not a lecture series; it is an eruption, a call, a demand. It is a truth so raw that even a passerby, even a child, even the most disengaged person in the crowd should be able to hear it and know, in their gut, what is being said.”
“A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.”
“A protest without a practical objective is meaningless. You can't join the movement for the thrill of the cause.”
“A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.”
Source: Foxe's Book Of Martyrs
“A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.”
“A prototype is a question embodied”
“A prototype is always more expensive than anything.”
“A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.”
“A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.”
“A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.”
“A proud heart may suffer from an inferiority complex or low self-esteem, even though these problems may seem incompatible with a heart ruled by pride. However, the insecure-yet-proud don't feel inferior due to moral failures or spiritual inadequacies, but rather because they don't measure up to the things they crave or believe are essential for their well-being.”
Source: The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.”
“A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“A proud man lives his life in his own way. He leads a life of meaning and purpose. The opinions of others do not affect him. He knows what he wants in life. And he achieves them.”
“A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.”
“A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“A proud person is always busy looking down on those below him that he hardly looks up to recognize those above him.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.”
“A proud person loses relationships easily; he is better of securing his pride and losing friends than losing his pride and securing friends.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“A prova de que estou recuperando a saúde mental, é que estou cada minuto mais permissiva: eu me permito mais liberdade e mais experiências. E aceito o acaso. Anseio pelo que ainda não experimentei. Maior espaço psíquico. Estou felizmente mais doida. E minha ignorância aumenta. A diferença entre o doido e o não doido é que o não doido não diz nem faz as coisas que pensa.”
“A proven leader always has a proven track record.”
Source: The Complete 101 Collection
“A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution.”
“A proverb from the wise is better than a thesis from a fool.”
“A proverb goes, "The mastery of a practical skill is more dependable than loads of hoarded treasure." And to my mind, no worthwhile skill is easier to acquire than the ability to learn through reading.”
Source: Admonitions for the Yan Clan (Library of Chinese Classics: Chinese-English Edition)
“A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.”
“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
“A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.”
“A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.”