A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”
Source: Early English Text Society: Extra series
“A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen when too much about one's neighbors is known.”
Source: Paradise
“A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.”
“A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.”
“A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.”
Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“A vontade de ser aceita nesse mundo de padrões eurocêntricos é tanta que você literalmente se machuca para não ser a neguinha do cabelo duro que ninguém quer.”
Source: Quem tem medo do feminismo negro?
“A vontade não pode ser expressa em palavras, a essência da vontade ultrapassou os limites da expressão escrita,”
“A vontade não é de cada um e em cada dia?”
“A vontade própria é própria. Não somos um proxy comandado sem resistência, somos nós, o eu, o indivíduo. Não importa a imensidão do poder que se sobrepõe a nós, a única coisa que pode fazer é tentar forçar a obediência. Somos sempre nós que decidimos se lhe fazemos a vontade.”
Source: A Cativa
“A voracious gambler does not gamble until he wins, but until he loses everything, and a smart one knows when to quit.”
Source: Karma and Redemption
“A vortex opened not far from here and downtown Richmond is turning gray and I don't mean Confederate gray either. Richmond's new address is now a part of the Hell dimension. The whole world is doomed”
Source: How the Vortex Changed My Life
“A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.”
Source: Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought
“A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.”
“A vote by the people of a country or a region on a question that is very important.....”
“A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.”
“A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.”
“A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.”
“A vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Isreal.”
“A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS.”
“A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.”
“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“A vote isn't just a piece of paper: it’s a person’s way of weighing in on who should be running the country, so not voting is the same as throwing away their say in the matter.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“A voteless people is a hopeless people.”
“A voter always knows how much to vote for.”
Source: The New Land
“A voter is but a Sisyphus. Votes...and votes...and votes...”
Source: The New Land
“A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
“A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.”
“A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“A vow is a snare for sin”
“A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“A vow of silence (maun) taken for a worldly purpose is considered non-silence (amaun). Anything that is spoken for the purpose of the Self, only that can be considered as complete silence (sampurna maun).”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.”
“A voz disse: cuidado, mas disse isso como se estivesse muito longe, no fundo de um barranco onde assomavam pedaços de pedras vulcânicas, riólitos, andesinas, veios de prata e veios de ouro, charcos petrificados cobertos de minúsculos ovinhos, enquanto no céu roxo como a pele de uma índia morta a pauladas sobrevoavam gaviões de rabo vermelho”
Source: 2666
“A voz que ouvimos no interior das nossas cabeças nunca foi fiável, pois sempre refletiu a propaganda estatal, as lavagens cerebrais ideológicas e a publicidade comercial, já para não falar dos defeitos bioquímicos.”
Source: 21 lições para o século 21
“A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.”
“A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)”
Source: Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes: Including Letters of Other Eminent Men Now First Published from the Originals in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge; Together with an Appendix, Containing Other Unpublished Letters and Papers by Newton; with Notes, Synoptical View of the Philosopher's Life, and a Variety of Details Illustrative of His History
“A vulnerability in an organization's IoT microcosm is a "taunt" to exploit by malicious hackers”
“A.W.E. is a doorway to profound presence, spaciousness, ease and peace - a fast track to transcendence.
Part of the reason awe doesn't come naturally to some people is that their sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive more often than is necessary.
Many of us don't feel safe enough to open up to awe.”
Source: The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day
“A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.”
“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”
“A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.”
“A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“A wage to a worker is not a free gift.”
“A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.”
“A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.”