A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A (traffic jam) far better than clue less (runway)—at least it has aim of somewhere.”
“A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.”
“A traffic policeman stops Sister Bridget for speeding. She pulls into the side of the road and winds down her window. The officer walks round and starts undoing his fly. "Oh dear," she says, "Not the breathalyser again."”
“A Trafficker is the most reliable person you will ever meet!”
“A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)
“A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.”
Source: The Power Is Within You
“A tragedy in life is soon diminished by another.”
“A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.”
Source: Aristotle: the Poetics:
“A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.”
“A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.”
“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”
“A tragedy is the most beloved of stories.”
Source: When the Crows fly
“A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.”
“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
“A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.”
Source: Half a Life: A Memoir
“A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.”
“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
“A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.”
“A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if not positively unpleasant. Consciously or not some persons look upon God as a hard taskmaster, or a severe parent. . . . The truth is that the will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, newer and brighter experience, wider opportunity of service to others-life more abundant.”
“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”
Source: Critical Essays
“A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.”
“A tragédia não tem país, Estefânia. os portugueses apenaws a sentem com mais dor.”
“A train is a poem that will take you anywhere you want to go.”
Source: The Last Great American Hobo
“A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes
“A train thunders by late at night, you gaze idly at the dark rushing mass, you see a patch of light and within that patch of light, a face; in a wink of time it is gone - but, having seen it, you know it will never be gone, you know you will see that face in your dreams perhaps forever. Such is the insubstantial stuff of which fiction - or madness - is made.”
Source: The Carnival and Other Stories
“A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.”
“A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.”
Source: The Manual of Detection: A Novel
“A train wreck supposes a train as the vehicle, a track as the guide for the vehicle, and movement (without which neither train nor track would matter). But a greater train wreck would be the absence of all three due to our fear of the journey.”
“A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into the Yeltsin clan. He did so by blackmailing Russia’s prosecutor general with a fake sex tape.”
Source: Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
“A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions”
“A trait of great leaders is the ability to treat followers with great respect.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“A trait si-a iubit si asta face si acum! In trandafirul asta de-o frumusete perfecta nu mai e nici o petala nedeschisa, nici o picatura de roua pe care n-au vazut-o razele soarelui.”
Source: The Blithedale Romance
“A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.”
Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller
“A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.”
“A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.”
Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets
“A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.”
Source: The Return of the King
“A traitor only becomes one if their plot is discovered. The imposition of guilt means nothing to those who feign loyalty. More skilled conspirators wield treason as a clinical tool of regime change and political expediency. Then, with their own hand writing history, such traitors may wear the clothes of patriots.”
“A traitor's just a patriot on the wrong side of winning.”
Source: Nevernight
“A traitor to both sides, the ultimate asshole…”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional.
We have all the information we need to see clearly.
We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness.
It is no longer cute to crap ourselves.”
“A trajetória económica da União Soviética ilustra de uma forma vívida como a autoridade e os incentivos proporcionados pelo Estado podem ser o motor de um crescimento económico rápido num contexto de instituições extrativas e como esse tipo de crescimento acaba e colapsa.”
Source: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“A tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!”
“A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind of woman except — very rarely, when he can raise a few shillings — a prostitute.
It is obvious what the results of this must be: homosexuality, for instance, and occasional rape cases. But deeper than these there is the degradation worked in a man who knows that he is not even considered fit for marriage. The sexual impulse, not to put it any higher, is a fundamental impulse, and starvation of it can be almost as demoralizing as physical hunger. The evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually. And there can be no doubt that sexual starvation contributes to this rotting process. Cut off from the whole race of women, a tramp feels himself degraded to the rank of a cripple or a lunatic. No humiliation could do more damage to a man’s self-respect.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”
“A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.”
“A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.”
“A tranquil mind is the shrine of God. When you balance your 114 chakras, the mind becomes tranquil.”
Source: 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation
“A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities is described as the embodiment of 'Triputi' (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings.”
“A tranquil state of mind will help you focus and thrive. Taking time to unwind and lessening the stress in your life should be prioritized.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“A tranquil state of mind will help you to focus and thrive. Taking time to unwind and lessening the stress in your life should be prioritized.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons