A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A single lie is the father of all lies”
Source: Goodbye Girl
“A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.”
“A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.”
“A single lion can conquer a thousand sheep.”
“A single lion is greater than a thousand hyenas.”
“A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757
“A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.”
“A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.”
“A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.”
“A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.”
“A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.”
“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
“A single-minded purpose gives sacred strength to achieve the dream.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A single minded vision gives strength of purpose.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A single minded vision gives the strength of purpose.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.”
“A single molecule can set the path for a million possibilities.”
“A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things... a mother's love is more than enough.”
“A single moment can change so many things. Guard how you think, what you say, or what you do, because it matters in the grand scheme of things.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.”
“A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’.”
Source: The Hungover Games: A True Story
“A single mother juggling two jobs, so she could provide for her kids, is far more brave and empowering than a billion empty, self-indulgent celebs.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. “What bird are you calling?” I asked finally, when I couldn’t stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. “You.”
“A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.”
Source: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
“a single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conversation,' that a dilemma is framed. When a parent [or partner] uses anger or the threat of anger to dominate the emotional atmosphere, then even potentially good conversations with them lose spontaneity, openness and honesty.”
Source: Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power
“A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.”
Source: the elements of style
“A single parent is one who, despite gender classification, should be sent both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day goodwill messages.”
“A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.”
“A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.”
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.”
“A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“A single poem
is worth a hundred
cozy winter nights
kind words
and healed wounds.”
“a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.”
“A single profound thought, imbued with empowerment and inspiration, has the power to transform your entire life.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.”
Source: A Book
“A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.”
“A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking, but her attention never shifted off the man who was a predator, for all that he wore human skin. When he peeled open and held out a bar of some kind, she took it, aware low energy levels could be dangerous when it came to her ability to keep a handle on the cold fire. "Thank you." A faint smile, a strange amusement in those icy eyes. "You're welcome." It was the most polite interaction they'd ever had.”
“A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.”
Source: On Light and Other High Frequency
“A single recipe holds countless stories.”
“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”
“A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too late, can be teeming with millions, if not billions, of living organisms.”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
“A single seed holds within it the potential of giving rise to forests beyond measure.”
“A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.”
“A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.”
Source: Collected fiction
“A single, simple longing was enough to damn him.”
Source: Darkness in the Blood
“A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat)”
Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“A single smile may not change the whole world, but it forever changes the world of the one who receives it.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!”