A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.”
Source: Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files
“A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.”
“A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.”
“A sucker has no business with money in the first place.”
“A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.”
“A sudden ache beset his heart; he had stumbled on just one of those past moments in his life, whose beauty and rapture he had failed to arrest, whose wings had fluttered away into the unknown; he had stumbled on a buried memory, a wild sweet time, swiftly choked and ended.”
Source: The Apple Tree
“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.”
“A sudden douche of terror then squirted itself all over Dixon. After a moment he realized that this was because he had a plan and was about to carry it out. He panted a little with the enormity of it, then drained his glass and said quaveringly: "Here goes then. Good-bye for now.”
Source: Lucky Jim
“A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.”
Source: The Crack-up
“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”
Source: The Years of Rice and Salt
“A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”
Source: The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry
“A sudden sense of déjà vu, a feeling of being secretly observed, a recurring dream that seems eerily factual. What if these aren’t the misfirings of our own warped brains, random occurrences with no deeper meaning? What if they’re actually subtle hints, whispers from the multiverse urging us to question our reality?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“A sudden shock rattles your soul. The ground shifts. In minutes it is over, but it takes a long time to find your center of balance again”
“A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.”
“A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I'm a master. I'd never have to think about the games again.”
Source: Tempests and Slaughter
“A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.”
Source: The works of John Hookham Frere, collected with a mem. by W.E. and sir B. Frere
“A sudden, unanticipated death has a way of jolting us to our senses. Life as you know it will never be the same. It can be reinvented, reshaped into something different- but its never the same.”
Source: Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.”
Source: The Hobbit
“A sudden yearning to hold Artagan close overtakes me, to smell the scent of his skin and run my hands through his tousled black hair. He will soon ride into peril again as he has many times before. No matter how often he rides away, I never get used to it.”
Source: Dark Winds Rising
“A suferi e modul de a fi activ fara sa faci ceva.”
Source: Cartea amăgirilor
“A suffering heart cannot cure another suffering heart, but love can.”
Source: The Girl From America
“A suffering intensifies our longing for a meaningful existence, the quest for a reason to live gains complexity. Suffering raises countless unanswered questions. Through compassion, we find our dignity isn't diminished by unanswered questions but enriched by their very existence...”
“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.”
Source: Emily of New Moon
“A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.”
“A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.”
“A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.”
Source: Power Through Constructive Thinking
“A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan”
Source: A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way
“A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.”
“A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.'”
“A Sufi's heart is a lamp of fire burning
in god's love.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet.”
“A suggestion of a trapdoor waiting under every word.”
Source: Station Eleven
“A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!”
“A suitable opportunity will never be denied. If it's not given to you in the moment, assume that it's been postponed to a more suitable date. Never give up.”
“A suitably sultry voice answered his office phone. I gave my name, and she checked to see if Mr. Walsh was in. Given that Grace said he was the only lawyer at his firm, one wouldn’t think she’d need to check”
Source: Omens
“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”
“A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!”
“A summer apart changes people.s”
“A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.”
“A summer insect
Falls dead
Into my book
- Masaoka Shiki”
Source: Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems
“A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.”
“A Sunday rain awakes me up today,
Raindrops keeping my sorrows at bay.
Wall around me is now my lockdown friend,
Quarantined me has now learnt to blend.
Found my family that was always at shore,
The lust of wealth is not there anymore.
The loyal companion that is my pet,
Always keeps me cheerful and buoyant.
With the sky so blue and air so clear,
My crony birds singing I can now hear.
And though last but never the least,
My pen, my text, reappears to feast.
Happiness is always there with us right,
In darkness we see that hides in light!”
“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”
Source: A little book in C major
“A sundry of generational defining events foment a reverberating resonance that assists us communicate with one another. No breath we take stands alone; no breath we exhale remains independent from our past breathing cycles. We are similar to a massive sponge collecting electrical impulses that fire our internal generators. Each gulp of air that we take fills us with new experiences; each breath builds upon billions of our prior sense impressions. Each happening in our orbit bonds us with a hodgepodge of preexisting mental fragments to produce our current personality. Each of our independent decisions and discrete actions we correlate with the external physical environment and interdependent social relationships. Our personal actions are interrelated with our cultural milieu. Just as a butterfly flapping its wings in a rainforest can contribute to formation of a hurricane, our separate and joint actions operate to shape the environment, and in turn, the evolving environment continues to mold us.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A sundry of intimate encounters with the vibrant intellect of perceptive thinkers dissolves a recluse’s shroud of seclusion. Can I manufacture the needed first aid kit to arrest my internal hemorrhaging? Can I stave off my mental deterioration by exploring the written words of renowned authors? Can I map a course out of my present quandary by scouring the libraries brimming with the beautiful mind works of previous generations of eminent writers? Will diligent encounters with the incisive thoughts of outstanding essayist shred the indivisible bars shielding my indeterminate self and release me from of the monochrome cage of self-imposed isolation? Can respected writers’ perceptive soul-searching create a template for my inchoative thoughts spontaneously to mature?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls