A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.”
“A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!”
“A tidal wave crashed against the shores of Sterling’s soul, permanently shifting something inside him.
It was as if his body felt too small, too crowded for his own mind, as if something else was there, another heat he couldn’t quite discern amidst his own.
“Catena binds you. Through this rune, you both shall adhere to the order of this court, as neither of you will be able to stay away from the other. The thinner and longer the chain gets, the worse the suffering. The closer you are, the less you’ll feel its effects. This way, Elizabeth cannot escape your control. If she proves too dangerous, she will have no way to run from your punishment, and you’ll keep your oath to neutralise her.”
Sterling didn’t mean for things to go this far.
He merely wanted to be responsible for Elizabeth and keep her under his girdle, not actually be alchemically bound to being near her at all times. Indignation was painted on Elizabeth’s face in colours he yet hadn’t seen on her, washing the feeble traces of fear away. She was furious.
But so was he.
Annoyed with himself for not thinking alchemy would have been used… outraged for liking it.”
Source: Alchemy of Light and Shadow
“A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part, on whether they ride that wave into the future or, standing in the way, are rendered irrelevant by the voters.”
“A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told”
Source: The Girl on the Train
“A tidy personal life will improve your work and tidy work will improve your personal life.”
“A TIDY SPELL"
I've just been through a tidy spell,
I tell you it's a verity,
I've sorted out the things to keep,
The things to give to charity.
I've sorted out my ties and belts,
I've sorted out my shirts,
I've sorted out my coats and slacks---
To part with some it hurts.
I've sorted out my shoes and socks,
I've sorted out my shorts,
I've sorted out so much, in fact,
That now I'm out of sorts.
-by Richard Armour”
“A tie is like kissing your sister.”
“A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.”
“A tiered school fee structure ensures fairness by offering different pricing options tailored to the needs of students across grade levels or programs.”
“A tiger can never understand the view of a sparrow.”
“A tiger can’t eat you if you hide in a lion’s stomach.”
“A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.”
“A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.”
“A tiger must be patient, my boy. It does not roar until it is ready to strike.”
Source: The Atlantic Gambit
“A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and...actually, no it's just those two things.”
Source: Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three
“A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom”
“A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.”
Source: Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths
“A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.”
Source: Just for Now
“A tightness in my chest grows with every step she takes away from me. I hate the feeling sprouting inside of me like a weed, tangling around my heart like a vine, almost as much as I hate Iris walking away from me.”
Source: 2023 Easy Medium And Hard Crossword Puzzle Book For Adults: Large-print Awesome Crossword Puzzle Book For Puzzles Lovers | Adults, Seniors, Men And Women With Solutions
“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if he was taking a turn too fast was likely to lose control. If a man feared death, whether his own or the taking of another's, death would surely come calling.”
Source: Patches of Grey
“A tigress has never requested for an idea from the wolf to attack, the tigress only idea will be to hunt”
“A tilting sea and thundering winds
tossed the carved chest and filled Danaë
with terror; she cried
and placed her arm lovingly around
Perseus saying: 'My child, I suffer
and yet your heart is calm; you sleep
profoundly in the blue dark of night
and shine in our gloomy bronze-ribbed boat.
Don't think of the heaving saltwave
that seeps in through airholes and drenches
your hair, nor of the clamoring gale;
but lying in our seaviolet blanket
keep your lovely body close to mine.
If you knew the horror of our plight,
your gentle ears would hear my words.
But sleep, my son, and let
the ocean sleep and our great troubles end.
I ask you, father Zeus,
rescue us from our fate; and should
my words seem too severe, I beg you please
remember where we are, and forgive
my prayer.”
“A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale than all others in its genus or family.”
Source: Where My Heart Used to Beat
“A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.”
“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”
“A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.”
“A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.”
“A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.”
“A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”
“A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling”
“a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.”
Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."”
“A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.”
“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.”
Source: The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
“A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“A time lost is an experience lost and an experience lost is the most beautiful treasurable moment lost in life which was life made up of that is "moments" that we would have created out of time in our lives because life is created for experiencing moments.”
“A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."
She answered: "All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."
"What do you fear, lady?" he asked.
"A cage," she said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
Source: The Return of the King
“A time may come when the defense of freedom will demand the sacrifice of the very things that freedom has granted us. And the mark of a truly great nation is the willingness to readily abandon those privileges if called to do so in order to defend the freedom that gifted us with those very privileges.”
“A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry.
It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.”
Source: Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa
“A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.”
“A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.”
“A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.”
“A time of ongoing cultural revolution when the adversaries of Christianity have made plain their intent to use the state machinery to promote radical social ideologies hardly seems an opportune moment to discuss how the rights of property might be compromised. Private property is an important bulwark against the ongoing anti-Christian campaign. Although opponents of the free market will doubtless claim that they wish to interfere with the rights of property only to this or that extent, or only to bring about this or that allegedly desirable social outcome, there can be little excuse for such naiveté in our day. No Christian should want to build up an institution that he would be terrified to see in the hands of his ideological opponents.”
Source: Beyond Distributism
“A time of solitude will always produce some fruits.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.”
“A time past is an essence gone”
“A time traveler is never late for anything.”
Source: Cleo McCarthy Time Travel and Other Impossible Things
“A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.”
Source: Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy