A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.”
“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.”
“A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.”
“A sure mark of maturity is to be painstakingly accountable at those times when we have stepped so far afield that we can't even see the field anymore. A second mark is to push aside the suffocating waves of pain, the rancid rot of shame, and the crushing press of humiliation in order to intentionally correct our actions and step back into the field. And the third mark of maturity is ruthlessly crafting and forcefully applying all of the corrections necessary within ourselves (despite whatever cost that might incur or pain it might cause) so that we never step out of the field again and in doing so never step all over ourselves or anyone else.”
“A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”
“A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.”
“A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.”
“A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.”
“A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.”
“A sure sign of false faith is its militant stance. While true faith is marked by its gentleness to all aspects of life, false faith can be easily identified by its stubbornness, inflexibility, paranoia, and a desperate need to be right.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.”
“A sure sign of maturity is being able to accept people for who they are. You stop agonizing over changing those who don’t want to change. Because the truth is, little victories aside, that’s a superpower you don’t have. What you can do is decide what role you will allow them to play in your life. Then …you live with it.”
“A sure thing is no fun.”
“A Sure Thing practice is a love-replenishing practice. Whether it’s self-love or love with a partner, a Sure Thing practice will re-ignite the sizzle that once was or illuminate something you never knew was there.”
Source: The Sure Thing: A Pleasure Practice to Revive the Spark
“A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.”
“A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.”
“A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.”
“A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.”
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
“A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.”
Source: Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)
“A surface desire is one that conflicts with our Knowing. We must ask our surface desires: What is the desire beneath this desire? Is it rest? Is it peace?
Our deep desires are wise, true, beautiful, and things we can grant ourselves without abandoning our Knowing. Following our deep desire always returns us to integrity.
If your desire feels wrong to you: Go deeper.”
Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.”
“A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.”
Source: Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday
“A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.”
“A surge of anger blossomed in her stomach. She would fashion a new crown and take the feathers from this phoenix’s corpse if she wanted. She was Avalkyra Ashfire. She was a queen. None would shine brighter or burn hotter than her.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“A surge of doubt and insecurity rushes through me.
Will things ever change?
I feel like I am not helping anyone.
Even as I turn off my corporate laptop and switch off the lights in the office, my mind is racing.
I just don’t want to fail.
Not again.”
Source: The Roland Sisters and The Spirit Program
“A surge of emotion so strong washed over me like a tsunami wiping everything in its path. Everything I knew before was gone in an instant. And I knew the truth.
I knew I loved him dangerously.”
Source: Loving Kalvin
“A surge of hope, that familiar poison, makes my heart stutter.”
Source: Best Offer Wins
“A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.”
Source: Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life
“A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill.”
“A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.”
“A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.”
“A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.”
Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.”
Source: My Beloved World
“A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush has internalized the founders' belief that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with a certain inherent yearning for freedom. In turn, Bush has applied this to his vision for the Middle East, believing that a democratic transformation in that region is possible, given that inherent desire for liberty within all hearts, including the hearts of Arab Muslims. People disagree with that, which is fine, but that's the Bush vision.”
“A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.”
“A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.”
“A surprising, audacious and impudent attempt was made last Saturday by several people of this town to celebrate the birthday of the Pretender's son; the women distinguished themselves by wearing tartan gowns with shoes and stockings of the same kind, and white ribbands on their heads and breasts; dinners were bespoke at Leith with an intent to have balls afterwards.”
“A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.”
“A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.”
Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution
“A surprising number, like options in the cereal aisle, liberal studies graduates working fast food, people who don’t know Shakespeare coined the phrase break the ice.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.”
Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking
“A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.”
“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”
Source: Acceptance
“A surprising percentage of your own society, with all your heritage of murder, would like to believe that Life survives by going to the supermarket. So the ideal would be to train cattle to make butcher knives and take turns cutting each other up at a convenient location.”
Source: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
“A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?”
“A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.”
“A surreal combination of revulsion and wonder overwhelmed her, the feeling of betrayal, the scrape of a bear’s claw. Being an adult child did not equip her to deflect the wound.
“Women ought to interview their prospective partner’s children, don’t ya think?” She muttered, “I mean, from their first marriage, to see if the man they say they want to marry is really the man they want to marry!”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“A surrendered heart leads to greatness. A stubborn heart leads to struggle.”