A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
“A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.”
“A strong business idea with a profitable future will no doubt attract better financing rather than the other options.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A strong but gentle grip on her nape had pulled her back to make the acquaintance of a warm slab of granite. Callused fingers held her neck while a blunt hand fanned her hip, locking her into position against something hard and hot.
It could have been anyone, but after just one afternoon of Flynn-spun intimacy, her body knew its owner.”
Source: One Week to Score
“A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.”
“A strong character is grounded in humility.”
“A strong character stands up with head held high, despite their wounds, not without wounds.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“A strong community is not judged by how it treats the privileged, but by how it lifts the invisible.”
“A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”
“A strong culture will keep you and your employees from faking it.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“A strong currency means that American consumers and businesses can buy imported goods and services more cheaply and that inflation and interest rates will be lower, ... It also puts pressure on American industry to increase productivity and competitiveness. These benefits can feed on themselves as foreign capital flows in more readily because of greater confidence in our currency. A weak dollar would have the contrary effects.”
“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”
“A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.”
“A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.”
“A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.”
“A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.”
Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
“A strong egoism is a protection.”
Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
“A strong emotional connection is the result of having deep conversations.”
“A strong employer brand attracts top talent like a magnet, creating a pipeline of exceptional candidates.”
“A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.”
Source: Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works
“A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.”
“A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.”
“A strong foe is better than a weak friend.”
Source: The Edward Dahlberg Reader
“A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.”
“A strong foundation builds more than houses—it builds lives.”
“A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.”
“A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.”
“A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversations.”
“A strong girl no matter how girly she is, whether she loves unicorns and rabbits and wear sparkly stars in her hair and glitter nail polish, needs to know how to defend herself. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA”
“A strong government is where the will of the people matters, where the voice of the people is heard and where the dreams of the people are fulfilled.”
“A strong hand snared one buttock. Fionna emitted a sound of pleasure. Her thighs were open. Damp and waiting. But at the last instant, with another swift move that astounded her, he twisted so that she lay atop him.
"Aidan." His name was half-stammer, half-plea. "I'm not sure how to... what to..."
Both hands now clamped around her buttocks, he showed her what she needed to know. "There, sweet," he breathed, there's not much to it."
One single, gliding move found him planted to the hilt inside her. Her eyes flew wide. "I think there is," she said faintly.
And then there was no stopping it. Her fingers dug into his shoulders, she churned and thrust, with Aidan gasped and plunged. She buried her head against his throat. He arched his head and exploded inside her.
When it was over, Fionna realized she still lay sprawled above him. It had been a heated, hasty- and unquestionably lusty- union.”
Source: The Seduction Of An Unknown Lady
“A strong handshake conveys confidence, clarity, strength, and intention. As with everything else in life, if it is overzealous, it may be seen as aggressive, arrogant, or dominating. A bone-crushing vice-grip is just plain obnoxious and one of the fastest ways to make someone angry.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.”
Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17
“A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!”
“A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.”
“a strong king
needs a stronger queen
the strongest queen
respects the mightiest king”
“A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.”
Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
“A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.”
“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”
“A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem”
“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”
Source: My Story
“A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.”
“A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.”
“A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.
-Ben, Barnyard”
“A Strong man still smiles and moves forward even with many obstacles in life.”
“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”
“A strong man would smile and step forward even when he faces many obstacles in life.”