A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A salaried man may quit after a single try, a motivated man may quit after the tenth try, but only a bored man; a truly bored man will try till thousands of times and will continue till infinity and beyond.”
“A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.”
“A salary was not sufficient for me.”
“A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?”
“A sales tax is the enemy of the poor person. It is the enemy of the elderly couple who live on fixed income. And it is the enemy of the everyday American consumer, poor or not.
(From Voices of Multicultural America)”
“A saleslady holds up an ugly dress and says, 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?”
“A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!”
“a salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells hate condoms education snakeoil vac uumcleaners terror strawberries democ ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“A salesman sees a commission.”
“A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.”
“A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.”
Source: Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy
“A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.”
“A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.”
“A sampler of England's hottest 'chefs' would include a mostly hairless young blond lad named Jamie Oliver, who is referred to as the Naked Chef. As best as I can comprehend, he's a really rich guy who pretends he scoots around on a Vespa, hangs out in some East End cold-water flat, and cooks green curry for his 'mates'. He's a TV chef, so few actually eat his food. I've never seen him naked. I believe the 'Naked' refers to his 'simple, straightforward, unadorned' food; though I gather that a great number of matronly housewives would like to believe otherwise. Every time I watch his show, I want to go back in time and bully him at school.”
Source: A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
“A sampling plan is all about how you’re planning to gather data for your market research. It is going to include a sample of all those people who can represent your target audience and can also be easily studied.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“A samskara by itself, by its very nature, is negative.”
“a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.”
Source: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan
“A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.”
“A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.”
“A samurai was essentially a man of action.”
Source: Bushido, The Soul Of Japan
“A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“A sandalwood tree perfumes its ax.”
Source: The Milk of Birds
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“A sandwich loaf (for those who don't know) is a beautiful creation, a multilayer sandwich disguised as a cake. It had fallen out of fashion in recent years, but at one time it was all the rage to serve at bridal showers and christenings. To make a sandwich loaf, you take one loaf of bread, slice it horizontally, and fill each layer with a different filling. The loaves from Scandia were filled with three layers: chicken salad, ham salad, and egg salad. Then the whole thing is frosted with cream cheese, piped with flowers and waves until it becomes a floofy white log. To serve it, you slice it vertically like a cake, each piece containing the three different layers.”
Source: Marrying the Ketchups
“A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee.”
Source: Light from Uncommon Stars
“A sane man is at his sanest just after he has orgasmed.”
“A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.”
“A sane man who is untidy seems crazier than a tidy man who is insane.”
“A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.”
“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“A sane person will look like insane for an insane person!”
“A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.”
“A sane psychological religion can be constructed, and Jungian psychology is the best route to it. Jordan Peterson should be using his undoubted intellect to create a new religion for a new Age – a psychological religion, by which is meant a religion that is predicated on the work of the great psychologists. Jungian psychology will of course be at its core. The last thing we need is the rebirth of Judeo-Christianity. Rather than draw archetypes from the past, which lock us into the past, we need archetypes to lead us into the future. We need the world’s greatest psychologists working on constructing the healthiest, sanest religion there has ever been, one which changes human psychology forever and makes us the masters of our own fate.”
Source: Jordan Peterson and the Second Religiousness: Explaining the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
“A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.”
Source: From R to Z
“A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that is. In this choicelessness you will be in the middle. The moment you choose, you choose some extreme. The moment you choose, you choose against something; otherwise there is no question of choice. Being in a choiceless awareness is another meaning of being in the middle.”
“A sapient cat looking at humanity's salad garden buffet designed by God would not be seen as so much a paradise if the divine is seen as giving this to intelligent cats. It would be seen as quite the opposite. Since cats use plants as emetics and also lack the ability to taste sweet, Eden would be a rather hellish place. It would be a place where God might send a cat to punish the feline. This is because fruits and vegetation to eat would be a place to eat bland foods that cause one to vomit. It would hardly be a beneficial place for cats if this was a place of divine refuge where death did not exist. Again the immortal state would place cats in a rather hellish environment.”
Source: Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.”
Source: Complete Works
“A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-”
“a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.”
“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.”
Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time
“A sarokban a tűzifahalomnál öregember ült. Egymásra szorított tenyérrel alig hallhatóan, ismeretlen szavakat mormolva imádkozott. Világított a szeme. Z. félt tőle. Nálunk bújik a bácsi, súgta az apja. Mikor évekkel később beszélgettek a háborúról, megkérdezte apját, mi lett a bácsival, aki a pincénkben bújt el. Nem tudom, mondta az apja. Zsidó volt, üldözték őket. A kórházban is voltak zsidó orvos barátaim, elvitték, megölték őket
hagytátok?”
Source: Amit a szél susog
“A Sasquatch-like creature. Those were their words, not mine. I didn't even know the word Sasquatch. Had I known the problems it would cause - just the suggestion I'd seen such a thing - I would have never opened my mouth about it.”
Source: Beast: Face-To-Face with the Florida Bigfoot
“A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.”
“A satellite has no conscience.”
“A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.”
“A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.”
“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Vol.2: Top English Literature
“A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.”
Source: Occasions and protests