A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.”
“A run alone in the mountains in the early morning when no one is around can be like that. Solitude refuels me, clarifies and heightens my interactions with the world.”
Source: Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes
“A run has never returned me exactly the same. I go, I grow.”
“A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.”
“A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?”
“A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.”
“A runner is always attempting to control everything- time, energy, form, workouts, food intake, hydration- yet simultaneously conscious that she shouldn’t become controlled by any one variable. She is the agent. It’s as if each discipline is a necklace, and a runner must know when to put one on, when to take one off, when she can handle more than one, when she can’t . If all runners lose this talent for calibration, they end up wearing all the necklaces at once, and they sink. In other words, the art of elite running is often about the negative space. It’s less about knowing when to run; more about knowing when not to.”
Source: What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
“A runner is real when she takes the first step.”
“A runner must run with dreams in his heart.”
“A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.”
“A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.”
Source: Modern training for running
“A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.”
“A running person is usually running away from something or running towards something, but a good planner can do both as the same time.”
“A running person is usually running away from something or running towards something, but good planner can do both as the same time.”
“A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.”
“A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.”
“A running theme. There are no rules.”
“A runway is like a shrink's couch; stuff just comes out.”
“A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.”
“A rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable personal narrative to a daring life of impulsive passion, which only leads to tragedy.”
Source: The Slippery Slope
“A rural Venus, Selah rises from the
gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps
petals of water from her skin. At once,
clouds begin to sob for such beauty.
Clothing drops like leaves.
"No one makes poetry,my Mme.
Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,”
I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it with
our souls.”
Desire illuminates the dark manuscript
of our skin with beetles and butterflies.
After the lightning and rain has ceased,
after the lightning and rain of lovemaking
has ceased, Selah will dive again into the
sunflower-open river.”
Source: Whylah Falls
“A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.”
“A rush into the jaws of death, snatched free, to plunge therein again at will,’ he said. ‘I greet death with a smile on my face.”
Source: The Lost and the Damned
“A rush of cold air blew against his face as he left her bakery. While he walked, Kaden tried to convince himself the date wasn't a big deal, but it was. The nervous energy swirling in his stomach gave him away. He'd never been on a date. Ever. He had met his wife the day they were bonded. He wasn't even sure of the proper protocol for a human date. His brothers had one-night stands, not dates. There was no way he could ask them. They'd never let him live it down. Perhaps he could find the answer on Google?
With all he had learned since his arrival, he was confident he could figure this out. Besides, this was a date with Annabelle - the one human he had made a connection with. After everything they had been through, taking her out on a date should be easy.
What could possibly go wrong?”
Source: Under His Skin
“A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“A RUSHED ACCOUNT OF THE DEW
I who can blink
to break the spell of daylight
and what a sliding screen between worlds
is a blink
I who can hear the last three seconds in my head
but the present is beyond me
listen
in this tiny moment of reflexion
I want to work out what it's like to descend
out of the dawn's mind
and find a leaf and fasten the known to the unknown
with a liquid cufflink
and then unfasten
to be brief
to be almost actual
oh pristine example
of claiming a place on the earth
only to cancel”
Source: Falling Awake
“A Russia of the people is inconceivable without Polish freedom and independence.”
Source: Statism and Anarchy
“A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"”
“A Russian citizen who worked for the [Donald] Trump campaign manager in Ukraine, worked for Paul Manafort when Manafort was working in Ukraine, that Russian citizen visited the United States around the time of the Republican convention.”
“A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been in outer space many times,’ bragged the cosmonaut, ‘but I have never seen any angels.’ The brain surgeon stared in amazement, but then he said, ‘And I have operated on many intelligent brains, but I have never seen a single thought.”
“A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.”
“A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
“A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.”
“A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.”
Source: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
“A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.”
Source: How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds
“A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.”
“A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.”
Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
“A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.”
“A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.”
“A résumé is like a ticket to the job journey; without it, you are not in.”
Source: WHAT WON’T GET YOU YOUR DREAM JOB : STORY OF A JOB HUNT
“A résumé is the most important document in your journey to get a job, more important than your degree.”
Source: WHAT WON’T GET YOU YOUR DREAM JOB : STORY OF A JOB HUNT
“A Rússia e a Normandia ficavam tão longe, e tão perto o inverno, tão concretas a fome e a desolação e tão irreal todo o resto. Parecia impossível que existisse realmente um mundo e um tempo, a não ser nosso mundo de lama e nosso tempo estéril e estagnado, para o qual já não conseguíamos imaginar um fim.”
Source: If this is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz
“A s laws multiply, injustice increases.”
“A sabedoria recomenda que falemos menos, que batamos menos o martelo e que sejamos menos enfáticos, pois todos estão certos e todos estão errados em algum aspecto da análise. É o triunfo da dúvida.”
Source: Doidas e santas
“A sabedoria vem com a idade, com a velhice, e suspeito que nos como os órgãos, pois quanto mais sabemos das coisas, mais o fígado se queixa, mais os rins têm insuficiência, mais o coração pára. A sabedoria come tudo.”
Source: Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja
“A sabedoria vive cada momento de uma forma nova. De nada lhe serve o que aprendeu ontem, nem sequer lhe serve o que aprende agora. Ela não aprende, porque é aprendizagem.”
Source: O Eixo do Tempo
“A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.”
“A sack that can contain a person's greed...doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough.”
“A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.”