A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.”
Source: Ghostwritten
“A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.”
“A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. “Really?” I yelled. Horus didn’t answer”
“A weary soul is one that many have, but few talk about; confusing it for solely physical.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife.”
“A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.”
“A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.”
“A website can make money for you while you are asleep.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A website is a window through which your business says hello to the world.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A website should be designed such that a visitor should go the cart with confidence and not to your contact page with confusion.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A website without SEO is like a car with no gas.”
“A wedding ceremony is that ceremony where family and friends gather to witness a young man and woman willingly sign away their freedom.”
“A wedding doesn't always mean that the husband will be married to his wife.”
“A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.”
“A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.”
“A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.”
“A wedding invitation is a gift subpoena.”
“A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?”
Source: Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children
“A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.”
“A wedding is a ceremony where family and friends gather to witness a young man and woman willingly sign away their freedom.”
“A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.”
“A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.”
“A wedding is an event. A marriage is a lifetime.”
Source: The 6 Pillars of Intimacy Conflict Resolution: The Secret to Breaking the Conflict Cycle in Your Marriage
“A wedding is an occasion during and with which the bride and groom greatly exaggerate their love for each other, especially in cases where they really love each other.”
“A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.”
“A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.”
Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems
“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.”
Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems
“A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”
Source: The Clean House and Other Plays
“A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.”
“A wedding is no way to begin a marriage.”
Source: Unmanned
“A wedding is not house-keeping.”
Source: Hugo's Works
“A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”
Source: The Awakening
“A wedding is such a girl thing.”
“A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.”
“A wedding is to be in ritual with the Spirit of Love.”
Source: Laughter at the Altar
“A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.”
“A wedding ring is a symbol of commitment; a promise, a pledge, and a vow. The promise is to forsake all others, to stay devoted and true; the pledge is to honor that promise selflessly, to see the whole thing through; and the vow is to keep that pledge unwaveringly, until the days are few. It is a mutual agreement to become one instead of two.”
Source: Author of Worlds
“A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. Of course, half of marriages fall apart and most people end up being single again anyway.”
“A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.”
Source: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
“A wedge of autumn melon the color of apricots with a honeyed scent you catch from three feet away.
A shallow lacquered tray of rust red, laid with eight individual dishes. Yoghurt in a thin glass dish; a single teardrop of deep-red syrup and a tiny green leaf float on its surface.
A deep-black raku bowl of okayu, the soft and soupy rice to gently lull us out of sleep.
A triangular dish of pickled vegetables and a single umeboshi plum.
A white bowl of chilled black hijiki seaweed and soybeans.
A pretty dish painted with wisteria flowers of the softest, stickiest silken tofu the color of the pages of an old book, decorated with a single yellow chrysanthemum flower and a lump of fresh wasabi the size of a pea.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.”
“A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day.”
“A wee beverage afore the next dance?"
Her green eyes widened mischievously as her tongue slipped to the corner of her mouth. "Yes, indeed." She took the goblet and drank a healthy tot.
Before she downed it all, he stopped her. "Ye might want to ebb your thirst... for I have plans involving the both of us this night, and it will be all the more fun if ye are awake to enjoy it.”
Source: In the Kingdom's Name
“A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.”
“A weed is a plant out of place.”
Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s
“A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.”
“A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.”
“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
Source: The Collected Poems