A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A waist is a terrible thing to mind.”
“A “Wait and See” approach to an external factor is not strategic”
“A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.”
“A waiter came by with prepared bites of Cappelli spaghetti cooked with butter and fresh lemon and topped with a spoon of Italian caviar and parsley. Cassie felt the little hairs on her arms stand up with delight, and her whole body reveled in the flawless combination of flavors.
She looked over to Eamon, who was also clearly enjoying the dish. "Let the caviar be the hero," said Cassie, before flashing Eamon a big smile.”
Source: Eat Post Like
“A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure.
The meal was as large and generous as the chef himself, and by the time he was serving them aged Armagnac with a ripe Roquefort, Stella's head was spinning. Although they were now surrounded by people eating dinner, new dishes kept arriving. Petit fours appeared, and then chocolates. A basket of fruit. Jules and the chef toasted each other with fragrant fruit brandies.”
Source: The Paris Novel
“A waitress wearing a transparent amber dress came up to the bar. She sauntered toward him and paused to stare into his face. She surprised him by leaning close and kissing his lips. She then backed away and slapped him moderately hard.
Slater half-laughed. “What the hell was that for?”
“To know the sound of one hand clapping.”
Source: Exploits of the Satyr
“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.”
“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”
“A walk in the forest is not merely a walk; it is a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of stillness.”
“A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.”
“A walk in the woods is never a plunder of time. I see golden rays streaming through the trees, showering me with the meaning of being present. I see the sun's rays pouring through each twig, reminding me that I am capable of awakening love with smallest acts.”
“A walk is as good as a home run.”
“A walk is pleasurable the most when you walk so slowly that you seem to have piles of problems, or just piles.”
“A walk on the heath, however brief, whispers the timeless tales of the earth beneath.”
“A walk through the woods probably won’t change what’s wrong, but it can change how we respond to it.”
Source: 12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life
“A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.”
Source: Guys Write for Guys Read
“A walk with God can move mountains. It can shake foundations and provide unbelievable solutions. Seek after His face and be great.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“A walk with God can move mountains, shake foundations, and provide solutions. Seek after Him and you will be great.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“A walk you made by disappearing amongst the green grasses is always richer than a walk you make amongst the green emeralds!”
“A walkable community has to have useful things for people to walk to.”
Source: Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All
“A wall (despite how well decorated) is never a horizon.”
“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”
“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”
“A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.”
Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“A wall of forest looms above
and sweetly the blackbird sings;
all the birds make melody
over me and my books and things.
There sings to me the cuckoo
from bush-citadels in grey hood.
God's doom! May the Lord protect me
writing well, under the great wood.”
“A wall of stone was her heart,
Kept knocking but never did it part.
Mine was a pitiful little thing made of clay,
I didn't know that this was a game she loved to play!”
“A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.”
“A Wallace il dolore non piaceva. E così l'aveva soffocato, l'aveva chiuso in una scatola e aveva buttato via la chiave.”
“A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“A wandering knight
wambling in an endless road
Thinking to himself
Where the others are?
Taking care of what?
Who am I?
but a fading footprint
on a dark empty land
under a starless sky
seized by roaring shadows
and delusive hopes”
“A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!”
“a waning moon is
still a moon
even when the wolves don't howl.”
Source: Udaari: a collection of poems
“A want is a good as a wish.”
“A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.”
“A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.”
“A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.”
“A wanton waste of projectiles.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“A wanton women is ripened fruit,' Constanze intoned,'begging to be plucked by the Goblin King.”
Source: Wintersong
“A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.”
Source: Where There's a Will
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
“A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.”
“A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred young men.
It kills off something in people that can never be brought back. And if people go through enough wars, all that's left is the brute,
the creature that we --- you and I and others
like us -- have brought up from the slime",
he paused for a long moment; then he smiled slightly: "The scholar should not be asked to destroy what he has aimed his life to build.”
“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.”
“A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.”
“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“A war in five senses. Blood, sweat, tears, dust, pain.”
Source: Ambush
“A war is a terrible thing — even more terrible is having a hand, however inadvertently, in starting one.”
Source: A Rare and Dangerous Beast
“A war is a very serious gig indeed, and not one for which I am prepared, either mentally or pharmaceutically. Journalists who follow such things are another breed, another species altogether, lantern-eyed with long sleepless nights of shelling, their postures permanently altered by the weight of their combat armor. They speak a language all their own, intelligible only to others of their species, and they are a dying breed. Today, bereft of even the tiniest civil disturbance to cover, they have begun to fight each other in bloody hand-to-hand combat, one-on-one, with teeth and fingernails, like psychopathic lemmings bent on the annihilation of their species”
Source: Now Wash Your Hands
“A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.”