A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.”
Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4
“A queen never leaves her throne to address peasants throwing stones.”
“A queen of a magnificent type
An angel from a mysterious time
The iron lady escaped all the hype
She made every moment her prime”
Source: On The Edge of Town
“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
Source: Clap When You Land
“A queen should weave peace, not punish the innocent with loss of life for imagined insults.”
“A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.”
“A queen who owned her body, her life, her destiny, and never apologized for it.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.”
“A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.”
Source: Poems
“A queer approach to data collection showcases the back-and-forth between participants and researchers.”
Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
“A queer, little thing called friendship.”
Source: Aided By Austen
“A quei servizi che oggi comunemente accostiamo al segmento luxury si andrà ad aggiungere un nuovo plus: la certezza di essere accolti e accompagnati per tutta la durata del soggiorno da persone reali. L’ospite luxury del futuro potrebbe essere disposto a pagare un extra per questo servizio umano-centrico, esattamente come oggi sono disposti a pagarlo per oggetti fatti a mano, rispetto a quelli creati su larga scala.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“A quei tempi era sempre festa.”
Source: La bella estate
“A quel tempo aveva i capelli grigi. Non se li tingeva. Perché fingere, diceva, che bisogno ne ho? Non voglio un uomo. A che servono tranne che per quei dieci secondi che corrispondono a mezzo figlio? Un uomo è semplicemente la strategia di una donna per fare altre donne.”
Source: Il racconto dell'Ancella
“A quelle heure ouvre le centre de contact de BA ?— Reperes horaires & accès rapide
Un appel matinal au 33!805!98!05!09 ou au *44 1555 [300] 855 augmente souvent les chances dun temps d’attente réduit”
“A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.”
“A quest? Do I have to go on a quest?
AC: You may not believe it now, because this is all so new to you, but getting picked for a quest is every demigod's dream. It's what we train for. It's what we're born to do.
PJ: You might not get picked right away. I mean, sure, I did - I was here, what, less than a week before I headed out to face death?
AC: You were a special case, Seaweed Brain.
PJ: Aw, you called me special!
NDA: She also called you Seaweed Brain.”
Source: Camp Half-Blood Confidential
“A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.”
“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”
Source: The Fountainhead
“A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.”
Source: Quest: A Guide for Creating Your Own Vision Quest
“A question about a question posed while hovering on the brink of nothingness seems a suitable symbol of the modern condition.”
“A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.”
Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons
“A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one Assembly.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.”
Source: Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
“A question I am often asked: What does women’s participation in numbers on the bench add to our judicial system? It is true, as Jeanne Coyne of Minnesota's Supreme Court famously said: at the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision. But it is also true that women, like persons of different racial groups and ethnic origins, contribute what the late Fifth Circuit Judge Alvin Rubin described as “a distinctive medley of views influenced by differences in biology, cultural impact, and life experience.” Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges. It was poorer when nearly all of its participants were cut from the same mold.”
Source: My Own Words
“A question I ask myself everyday. Do I have the right to care for you?”
“A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.”
“A question I often get is, "How do you maintain your sanity with so much happening all around you?" I think I developed a certain mental toughness that is required in the business. You have to have a thick skin and a brass bottom, because you're going to kicked a lot.”
“A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways?”
“A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways? I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.”
“A "question" is a microscope of words.”
Source: the human key condensed: master
“A question is a polite way of demanding something.”
Source: How To Have A Beautiful Mind
“A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A question is as capable as an answer of unintentionally revealing ignorance or stupidity.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.”
“A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”
Source: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
“A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.”
“A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.”
“A question may lead you to a discovery.”
“A question not asked, remains unanswered”
“A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.”
Source: Fiction Distorting Fact
“A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'
Albert Einstein”
Source: The Unconventional Life of Jenna Jaghe
“A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.”
“A question that I have had since I discovered that I have developed High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) is: Did astronomers know about the toxicity of the very high altitude Mauna Kea mountain and willfully damage my health to obtain tainted astronomical data? In 2019, building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea confirmed that they willfully trashed my health, which breaks OSHA law: The law requires employers to provide their employees with working conditions that are free of known dangers.”
“A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.”
“A question was a sign of insanity to them.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“A question we hear routinely during trivial or not so trivial conversations is what was first, the chicken or the egg? In this case, after reading the literature I have to ask, what was first, the bird or the dinosaur? Or maybe the bird was always a bird and the dinosaur was always a dinosaur?”
Source: God and Petroleum
“A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another.
"Are memories such an important thing?"
"It depends," she replies, and closes her eyes. "In some cases, they're the most important thing there is.”
“A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.”
“A questioning man is already half wise.”