A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.”
“A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.”
“A stem in the flower will be flavorful”
“A step ahead means a risk ahead... Count your steps before a mistake is made..”
“A step back doesn’t stop a man meant to move a kilometre”
Source: Divine alchemy : The Sacred Refining of a Human Life
“A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.”
Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life
“A step taken to a new idea is a step taken to a new world!”
“A step towards contentment is a mile towards peace.”
“A step towards faith is a leap towards accomplishing the impossible.”
“A step towards love is a leap towards the divine.”
“A stepmother has pipe dreams that someday one of her step-grandchildren will be named after her”
Source: Stepmothers Try Harder
“A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.”
“A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.”
“A stereotype is like a self-fulfilling prophecy maybe (in the popular sense of the term). You can’t escape this reductive sht, this sht defines you.”
Source: We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
“A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“A sterile mind can transform itself into a fecund mind through astute perception and resolute determination. A prolific internal landscape emanates from appreciating the incomparable beauty in this world. Sensory deprivation of all forms predictably instills in a person an intense gratefulness for living a sumptuous life whereas exposure to an abundance of radiant sensations supplies a tractable student with wealth of handy diversity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A stew of potatoes, kidney beans, and chopped greens and onions simmered atop the small cast-iron range. The appetizing scent filled the cottage and drifted out the open windows. Remembering the many times she had made the dish for her father, Victoria smiled wistfully. Her father had never been a great lover of food, regarding it solely as a necessity for the body rather than something to be enjoyed. On the rare occasions when Victoria had made plum pudding, or brought currant buns from the bakery, he had nibbled at the treats and quickly lost interest. The only times she had ever seen him eat heartily, and with obvious enjoyment, was when she had made vegetable stew.”
Source: Someone to watch over me
“A steward in the above scripture is a servant who serves.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.”
Source: Beanpole
“A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”
“A stiff hand is a dead hand, the hand of life is a fluid hand.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“A still clearer case is that of the two stone chests buried by the Moors, one containing gold and the other containing the plagues. It is said that, fearful of opening the wrong chest, no one had had the courage to look for them. But if that's true, how is it that the plague has spread throughout the world.”
Source: Levantado do Chão
“A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way”
“A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and again. Because it is that frozen moment. I think it tends to burn into your psyche. It becomes ingrained in your mind. A powerful picture becomes iconic of a place or a time or a situation.”
“A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“A still tongue keeps a wise head.”
Source: 863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges
“A still tongue makes a happy life.”
“A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.”
“A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“A stitch in time saves at least nine law suits!”
“A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss”
“A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.”
“A stock doesn't know that you own it.”
“A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.”
Source: Beating the Street
“A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“A stock prejudicial summary of the McMartin case can be found today on the website wwwreligioustolerance.org, operated by the Ontario (Canada) Consultants on Religious Tolerance, an anonymous for-profit organization with a major web presence that aggressively promotes the view that all religious practices, no matter how noxious they may appear, are somehow deserving of “freedom” and “respect.” Although it claims to air “all sides” in any debate, the website merely parrots the FMS propaganda line with regard to repressed memories and allegations of satanic crime.”
“A stock screening feature is then used to find the leading stocks within the leading sectors.”
Source: Make Money Trading Leading Stocks: A Beginner's Guide to Free Trading Tools, Technical Analysis, Money and Risk Management, Trading Log for profits in ... Stock Market, Trend and Momentum Trading)
“A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.”
“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'”
“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY”
Source: Danny the Champion of the World
“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
“A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“A Stolen child born in 1852 entered a world in which atrocities were commonplace. Whispering over her might have seemed faint protection, a parlor trick at best. Still, words were all that many of us had to offer, so we gathered faithfully to pour them into her innocent ears.”
Source: Yonder
“A stolen intel could result after a night of pleasure, just as easily as death from a slit across the throat in the dark.”
Source: Bound to You in Japan
“A stolid example of red shifting with power would be the 'Art of Allowance.' Just dropping it, and letting it power down to a frequency of zero (0) if it wants, the longest wavelength and therefor most in the direction of red shifting physically possible.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.”
“A stomach can be full of so-called food, but be empty of nutrients.”