A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A real tank now costs about a million dollars, while a hallucinated one amounts to less than one-hundredth of a cent per person, or centispecter per spectator. A destroyer costs a dime. Today you could fit the whole arsenal of the United States inside a single truck.”
Source: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
“A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .”
“A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“A real treat. One you’ll always remember. Well, not always. Always is a very long time!”
Source: Being Jason Redloh
“A real turnoff for guys is any girl who is way too into them. Like, you`re being way too nice. Guys, as well as girls, like that sense of badness. I want a good girl, who can be a little bad.”
“A real value of our lives is in how we use our time as we journey from the womb to the tomb. A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! Wasted time! We waste great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb; in the end, we remember the w and the t in a simple statement of regret, 'had I known' ! The wasted time!”
“A real winner is the one who has the ability to find success by self; who chases success at his/her own will, and never gives a chance to attribute credit of his/her success to his/her referees. No matter how slow he/she goes; how painful are the financial issues; how long it takes to find self; and how likely he/she persevere, in the end, the fruits of success would give enough pleasure than the pleasure earned through references.”
“A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A real woman knows how to make a man feel like a king, but a queen who knows her position can rule a king.”
“A real woman needs quotes by dead men to get through the day.”
“A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude. I am convinced that the woman who understands and accepts with gladness the difference between masculine and feminine will be, without pretense or self-consciousness, womanly.”
Source: The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity
“A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.”
“A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.”
“A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.”
“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off”
“A real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold”
“A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.”
“A realidade de tão real se realiza.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A realidade, inclusive nós, é apenas um ténue e frágil véu, além do qual... não há nada.”
Source: Buracos Brancos: Dentro do Horizonte
“A realidade se realiza sozinha sem caridade nenhuma de um suposto divino.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A realidade é aquilo que não desaparece, quando se deixa de crer nisso.”
“A realidade é manha, a astúcia que cada um põe em jogo”
Source: Húmus
“A realidade é obediente como um cão fiel, enquanto a imaginação tem olhos de mosca. A imaginação pode ser mais forte que a realidade.”
Source: O Caderno do Algoz
“A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.”
“A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.”
“A realist’s heart
It is not dead but it isn’t fully alive either
It is not affected by the change of the weather
It is truthful with itself
And does not remain for the taking on the shelf
A realist heart is simply a heart that knows it can stop beating at any minute
Every beat, the realist ought not waste it”
Source: Hey Humanity
“A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.”
Source: Cities of Italy
“A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following two factors: The probability that the investment you chose will preserve your capital over the time you intend to invest your funds. The probability the investments you select will outperform alternative investments for this period.”
Source: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation
“A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.”
“A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?”
“A reality of personal productivity is that humans are not great at estimating the time required for cognitive endeavors. We’re wired to understand the demands of tangible efforts, like crafting a hand ax, or gathering edible plants. When it comes to planning pursuits for which we lack physical intuition, however, we’re guessing more than we realize, leading us to gravitate toward best-case scenarios for how long things might take. We seem to seek the thrill that comes from imagining a wildly ambitious timeline during our planning: “Wow, if I could finish four chapters this fall, I’d really be ahead of schedule!” It feels good in the moment but sets us up for scrambling and disappointment in the days that follow.
By deploying a blanket policy of doubling these initial estimates, you can counter this instinct toward unjustified optimism. The result: plans that can be completed at a more leisurely pace. The fear here, of course, is that by doubling these timelines, you’ll drastically reduce what you accomplish. But your original plans were never realistic or sustainable in the first place.”
Source: Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.”
“A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.”
“A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.”
Source: The Science of the Mind
“A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.”
“A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.”
“A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.”
“A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.”
“A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.”
“A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has made her see herself and her opinions in something like just proportions; she does not make it a pedestal from which she flatters herself that she commands a complete view of men and things, but makes it a point of observation from which to form a right estimate of herself. She neither spouts poetry nor quotes Cicero on slight provocation; not because she thinks that a sacrifice must be made to the prejudices of men, but because that mode of exhibiting her memory and Latinity does not present itself to her as edifying or graceful”
Source: Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).”
“A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.”
“A really fun thing to do at 3 a.m. is to google 'the future of sleep' for a glimpse into the dystopian future awaiting us. Sheer horror will keep you awake, but at least you'll be prepared for the revolution when we are all transformed into mindless cyborgs who never sleep.”
Source: On Sleep
“A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.”
“A really good detective never gets married.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.”
“A really good horror film has a story.”
“A really good kiss is like a secret you want to share. A really good kiss reminds you why it’s hard to decide on the right lipstick. The first kiss stays in you’re mind – forever. Time expands with a really good kiss and you add another few seconds to the end of your life.”
Source: Being a Girl