A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'.
One day he found something so alien and said,
'I can't believe what I just saw'.
Then the other man with different credo,
'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'.
One day he found something so alien and said,
'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.”
“A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.”
Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne
“A sketch is just a mini movie.”
“A sketch of a man facing to the right.”
“A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.”
Source: Correspondence
“A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.”
“A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.”
“A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.”
“A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.”
“A skilled magician cannot fool other skilled magicians with moves, but he can certainly fool them with mathematics.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A skilled strategist knows when to bide their time, waiting for the opportune moment to strike or exploit a weakness in their adversaries. Learn to cultivate patience, and use it to gather intelligence, assess the shifting landscape of influence, and prepare for the moments when decisive action is required.”
Source: Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual
“A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.”
“A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.”
“A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.”
“A skillful football player is a product of hours of practice”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“A skillful instrumentalist has his story to tell of his ordeal in rehearsals”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no words written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished because undisturbed: and this is an end unattainable by the novel. Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem; but undue length is yet more to be avoided.”
“A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.”
Source: E.J. Bellocq: Storyville portraits, photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912
“A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.”
“A skin was nothing. Pigs had skins; snakes had skins. They were knitted of dead cells, shed and grown and shed again. But a name? That was a spell, which summoned memories.”
Source: The Hellbound Heart
“A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.”
Source: The Mint: Lawrence after Arabia
“A Skookumchoocher is someone who just keeps going and going, they just keep beating the odds.”
Source: Skookumchoocher: An Inspiring Journey of a Life in Animal Welfare
“A skunk by any other name still stinks.”
“A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.”
“A sky full of silent suns.”
Source: Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. (A Genuine Thorn Piece)
“A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
—ATTICUS”
Source: Love Her Wild
“A sky full of stars, was names ours - Before Birth”
Source: Coming Home
“A skydiver, arrogant in his ability to navigate the heavens, rejects his fragile state and calls himself a God of the skies.”
Source: Skygods
“A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.”
“A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.”
“A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.”
Source: Cass Gilbert, architect: modern traditionalist
“A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.”
“A skyscraper is not a tree - not yet.”
“A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.”
“A slam dunk or a breakdance move is limited by what the physical body can do. Now, a skateboard is limitless by design, by not only the dynamic of the board and the way it goes but also what you build to skate on. Basically it's like a slam dunk contest that will progress every for the life of the sport. Five years from now there are going to be kids doing stuff that we didn't think was possible.”
“A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.”
“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”
Source: Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja
“A slap is a high-five to a face. People are so selfish these days that they could really benefit from that kind of support. Here on my duck farm, I provide that service to select customers for FREE.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!”
“A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.”
Source: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
“A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.”
“A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.”
Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
“A Slave in a man is aroused when he takes his freedom for granted.”
“A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong”
“A slave is a fallen king whose only hope to live is to one day recover his throne”
“A slave is but half a man.”
“A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.”
“A slave is one who sells his soul to save his life. A master is one who gives his life to save his soul.”