A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.”
“A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.”
“A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“A telephone connects more than just people.”
“A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.”
“A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.”
“A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.”
“A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.”
“A television set in Florida refused to let itself be turned off; until its owners took an axe to it, it continued, on or off, presenting inferior music and stale movies and endless, maddening advertising, and even under the axe, with its last sigh, it died with the praises of a hair tonic on its lips.”
Source: The Sundial
“A televisão serve para os dias de finais de futebol, para gripes e constipações, para sabermos as notícias, ouvirmos os debates e, mais recentemente, para estarmos nas redes sociais a gozar enquanto a vemos. Fora isso, não parece servir para nada.”
Source: Ainda Bem Que Ficou Desse Lado
“A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com.”
“A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because of his energy and enthusiasm. You know, the qualities you look for in someone whose main job is traveling to state funerals.”
“A telling example of what it has all come to can be found in the person of Rick Santorum, the junior Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Elected to the House in 1990 and then the Senate in 1994, Santorum, forty, is the apotheosis of the brash newer member who imposes himself on the working order of the Senate, demonstrates little respect for the institution, becomes a one-man ideological enforcer, and brings down the level of civility. Toothy, with a shock of dark hair, Santorum looks the perfect pol for the television age. Unburdened by brilliance, he makes his impact through pestiferousness.”
Source: Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why
“A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.”
Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man
“A temperate anger has virtue in it.”
“A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A temperate style is alone classical.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“A temple dancer named Vellayi(meaning fair, white woman) decided to enact an act of defiant resistance to the Islamist commander who was doing this. She seduced him and took him to a top temple tower, and then, as he approached her, she threw him down from the tower, which immediately killed the general. ..she and her community should be given the honour of getting fire for the rites from the sacred ovens from where the food for the Lord was cooked and that Prasad and divine-symbol honours should be given. That promise was made to her, and it was then being followed through generations. One of the towers of Sri Rangam is painted in pure honour of this dancer-girl.”
Source: A Dharmic Social History of India
“A temple does not necessarily have to be a building; a perfect view is also a temple; you go there, you sit and you live the spirituality to the full!”
“A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on high—a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilities—to bring to pass our Heavenly Father's purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love.”
“A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.”
“A temple, first of all, is a place of
prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
sanctuary--a temple.”
“A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words”
“A temptation is the universe's gracious way of allowing a soul to evolve without creating negative karma. In other words, a temptation is like a magnet that draws to awareness, negativity, that would otherwise create negative karma if it remained unconscious. A temptation is a dress rehearsal for a negative karmic act.”
“A temu, co podejrzane, warto się z uwagą przyglądać. Seks innych to przecież moja sprawa. Będę oceniał, sądził, brzydził się. Brzydzisz się, to dlaczego dupy innych tak cię obchodzą?”
Source: Wściekły pies
“A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.”
“A ten-year-old Amanda wandering around the sights and sounds of a carnival. Trying to take it all in as such an event was much larger than the backroads of isolated territory from whence she grew up. She could not imagine this many people assembled in one place. It was made more disturbing by the fact none of them seemed familiar. Short for her age, she wandered unnoticed among the crowds and began to feel the first stirrings of fear. The loud talk, the screaming children, the long lines of procession, along with the myriads of odors created a miasma that she wanted to flee. The laughter and the faux expressions of joy on the faces of people, took on the maroon tones of a nightmare. She could imagine underneath the laughter, were horrid screams about to erupt.”
Source: River at the World's Dawn
“A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.”
“A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and Get Up Early. 5. Be of Good Cheer. 6. Work Hard. 7. Overcome Pride. 8. Love Everyone, and Express Your Love. 9. Become One. (As in John 17) 10. Share Your Testimony.”
“a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.”
“A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!”
“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“A tendency for the male perspective to dominate responses to films, whether that's commissions or how a film is presented in the world. The market is used to a male voice and a male audience, which it feeds”
“A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.”
Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
“A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.”
“A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.”
Source: For the Defense: Thomas Erskine: The Most Enlightened Liberal of His Times, 1750-1823
“A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.”
Source: Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings
“A tender, empowering story that helps children navigate big emotions and rediscover their inner strength. Jane Wellson’s Liam’s Lost Sparkle is a wonderful tool for parents and educators to foster resilience and self-awareness in young hearts.”
Source: UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
“A tender heart, a humble mind.”
“A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.”
Source: The Acceptable Sacrifice
“A tender, relatable set of works on experiencing and overcoming heartbreak. — Kirkus Reviews”
Source: Thunder and Daisy
“A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.”
Source: Poems
“A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.”
Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times
“A tenger iránti érdeklődését mindannyian megértjük, némelyeknek azonban nehezére esik felfogni, hogy az irodalomban mit talál olyan figyelemre méltónak. A sagák olvasása persze élvezetes, hiszen izlandiakról szólnak, néha érdekesek és elég izgalmasak is, hősök is vannak bennük, akikhez mérheti magát az ember, a népmeséket is lehet olvasgatni, a hétköznapi életről meg a bátor tettekről szóló könyveket is, sőt egy-két verset is akár, leginkább olyan költőktől, akik izlandiakról írnak, és tudnak valamit a szénabetakarításról és a jószággal való bánásról is; na de hogy egy hajóskapitány az irodalmat egy szintre emelje a hallal, hát kérem, miféle kapitány az?”
Source: Heaven and hell
“A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!”
“A tenor player named Bud Revels there at the time. A lot of really nice associations amongst the students. Garry Dial was a returning student. He actually got me on Red Rodney's band subbing a little bit. I gigged some with Red when I was 21 in 1988. So I had a lot of nice associations that came from [ Laguardia School of Arts]. But a lot of my education was going on in the clubs. Hearing music and sitting in.”
“A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World