A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.”
“A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.”
“A tardiness in nature,
Which often leaves the history unspoke,
That it intends to do.”
Source: King Lear: Third Series
“A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.”
Source: Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc
“A tarefa primordial do professor: seduzir o aluno para que ele deseje e, desejando, aprenda.”
Source: Ao professor, com o meu carinho
“A target market should be like a lighthouse in a storm to a business”
Source: Business Paradigm Shifting: A Quick 6-Step Guide to Remaining Relevant as Markets Change
“A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.”
“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
“A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.”
“A task is not a priority because it’s urgent, but because you have assessed its importance meticulously and have decided that accomplishing such an activity will take you one step closer to your long-term goal”
Source: Complete Makeover: A Seven-step Process to Transforming Your Life
“A task is only difficulty, when we not find the best strategy to get it done.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A task which seems difficult, can be done with adequate training.”
“A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.”
Source: A Personal Record
“A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.”
“A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.”
Source: The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”
Source: To see the dream
“A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.”
“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty”
“A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.”
“A taste for the comics is excusable only by extreme youth because it involves an acquiescence in hideous draughtsmanship and a scarcely human coarseness and flatness of narration.”
“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
“A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.”
“A taste of honey is worse than none at all.”
“A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.”
“A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.”
Source: Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra
“A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.”
Source: A New England girlhood
“A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.”
“A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.”
Source: Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
“A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.”
“A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.”
“A Taurus does the present very well--by being meticulous and on a path. They teach us that we should always be on our way toward something we want, if we want to feel whole forever.”
Source: Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac
“A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.”
“A tavern was one of the last places I enjoyed being. Give me a quiet library or bookshop any day instead.”
Source: Queen of Roses
“A tawdry realm of shifting, insecure employment and fleeting glimpses of high reward for little effort. A world where strings are pulled by complete cretins while those who work hard at the creative coalface are at the bottom of a steaming dunghill of vacuity, broken dreams, and empty promises.”
Source: Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist
“A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.”
Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth
“A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.”
“A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.”
“A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.”
“A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.”
“A tax dollar paid today is far more expensive than one paid in future dollars. With inflation, money becomes less valuable over time because of the cost of goods increases.”
Source: Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know
“A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.”
“A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.”
“A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.”
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
Source: God of the Machine
“A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories.”
“A te lipsi de iluziile tale e totuna cu a atenta la propria-ți ființă.”
Source: Caiete I