A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.”
“A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.”
“A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.”
“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”
Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.”
Source: 廿一世纪完全作人原则: The English-Traditional Chinese Page to Page Correspondence Display Edition, Useful for Learning Chinese
“A real garden is what I would call a parcel of land - any size, anywhere, with any plants or no plants - that is loved and nurtured. It's a personal place, probably enclosed in some way, and imbued with a person's spirit, a gardener's spirit. I'm sure many people think being a gardener sounds like a horrible job. I think it's one of the most rewarding occupations anyone could have – I mean to physically make gardens, not just sit down and design one (let's leave that to the designers), and not just take care of grass and plants (maintenance workers can do that). To dedicate your entire being and all the passion and time and knowledge you have to working with plants and shaping them into a living, personal artwork. That's what a real gardener does, and that's why “half-gardener” is already a compliment.”
Source: Mezzo giardiniere
“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”
Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…
“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
“A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real”
“A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.”
“A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.”
“A real groupie is someone who loves the music and wants to do it with the guys who make it and someone who goes after what they want, so a groupie is a feminist thing. A woman who goes after what she wants is a feminist. So I've never been anything but a feminist. I took the birth control pill on the Strip in front of everybody and that was my statement. I control my body, I can do whatever the heck I want.”
“A real grown-up doesn't get old, but mature as time passes by.”
“A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.”
Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
“A real house with a copper pot for making jam, and sugar cookies in a metal box hidden deep inside a dresser. A long farmhouse table, thick and homey, and cretonne curtains. She smiled. She had no idea what cretonne was, or even if she'd like it, but she liked the way the words went together: cretonne curtains. She'd have a guest room and- who knows- maybe even some guests. A well-kept little garden, hens who'd provide her with tasty boiled eggs, cats to chase after the field mice and dogs to chase after the cats. A little plot of aromatic herbs, a fireplace, sagging armchairs and books all around. White tablecloths, napkin rings unearthed at flea markets, some sort of device so she could listen to the same operas her father used to listen to, and a coal stove where she could let a rich beef-and-carrot stew simmer all morning along.
A rich beef-and-carrot stew. What was she thinking.
A little house like the ones that kids draw, with a door and two windows on either side. Old-fashioned, discreet, silent, overrun with Virginia creeper and climbing roses. A house with those little fire bugs on the porch, red and black insects scurrying everywhere in pairs. A warm porch where the heat of the day would linger and she could sit in the evening to watch for the return of the heron.”
Source: Hunting and Gathering
“A real human being does not recognize people by money but by personality.”
“A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.”
“A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.”
“A real Intelligence is an art to simplify complex matters without losing the integrity of that matter”
Source: A Transcendental Yogi Life: With Eternal Stories
“A REAL job is a job you hate.”
“A real journey will demand that I put my shoes on, but then I’ve got to stand up and walk. And I forget the second part, the first part doesn’t matter.”
“A real journey will demand that I put my shoes on, but then I’ve got to stand up and walk. And if I forget the second part, the first part doesn’t matter.”
“A real kiss," he said. "That's what I needed, just one more time.”
Source: The Heart of Betrayal
“A real leader builds more leaders—not more followers.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.”
“A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.”
“A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.”
Source: Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss
“A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.”
“A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.”
“A real life doesn't ask you to stop and move back; it always says Move On.”
“A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.”
“A real lion hunt, is as much a mind game as it is a physical explosion of violence.”
“A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.”
“A real love is not having your beloved in bed but in your dreams and thoughts.”
“A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.”
Source: The Spinster Book
“A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.”
Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher
“A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.”
“A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.”
“A real lover is a true friend.”
“A real man can use power, rather than let power use him”
Source: How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
“A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.”
“A real man doesn't hurt Women, Children, and animals.”
Source: Decoding Alpha Employees: Catalysts for Growth or Chaos?
“A real man doesn't take advantage of a woman when she is vulnerable.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enough for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother's debt. If he understands that . . . he won't have to feel guilty, and he won't have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.”
“A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot”
“A real man has no tougher judge than himself.”
“A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.”