A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.”
Source: Encouragement Changes Everything: Bless and Be Blessed
“A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Stomach-ache can be a curse;
heart-ache may be even worse;
so thank Heaven on your knees
if you've got but one of these.”
“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.”
“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.”
“A word of new information is based upon a strong source, in order to carry a neutral, peaceful and plural interpretation.”
“A word of the faith that never balks,
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“A word of warning.
You can't silence a billion people.”
“A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)”
Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“A word on miracles.... Don't let those that have not yet transpired, blind you to those that have.”
Source: More Notes From the Universe: Life, Dreams and Happiness
“A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.”
Source: Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose
“A word once uttered can never be recalled.”
Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering
“A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.”
Source: Among my Books, etc
“A word only writes its night and rides its dream.”
“A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.”
Source: The Story of the Soul
“A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.”
“A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's a kind of suggestion of where you might look for that thing.”
“A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".”
“A word, Sir Jamie. Quickly!"
You may speak freely, Alwyn," Jamie sighed. "You are always making too mcuh of minor incidents."
You're no' going to believe it, Sir Jamie," Alwyn gasped. "But I swear every male Fergusson alive is outside our gate.”
Source: A Gentle Feuding
“A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.”
“A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.”
“A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella
“A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“A word that I say might wound you. However, I would encourage you not to confuse the ‘truth spoken in love’ for a word ‘weaponized by hate.”
“A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
Ideas are incombustible.
And therein lies your real fear.”
“A word to the unwise – you cannot use a system that denies Truth to say anything at all about the Truth. Any belief system that rejects Truth has no relevance whatsoever to Truth, and you cannot use such as system to validly address any Truth at all.”
Source: Contra Mundum
“A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.”
“A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.”
“A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.”
Source: The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth
“A word to the wise is infuriating.”
“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.”
Source: Further fables for our time
“A word to the wise is sufficient”
Source: Plautus, the darker comedies
“A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.”
“A WORD TO THE WISE
Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
never get caught in its snare.
Remember, the only acceptable case
for being in any particular place
is having no business there.”
Source: Grooks 1
“A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and knees and wear diapers or walk with a cane and comb their beards. There's a wondrous magic to Christmas, and there's a special power reserved for little people. In short, there's nothing mightier than the meek, and a merry Christmas to each and all.”
“A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“A word too much always defeats its purpose.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“A word verses a thousand pictures too.”
“A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.”
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography
“A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.”
“A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.”
“A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.”
Source: The Works of Horace
“A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.”
“A work can be imperfect, so long as it moves you.”
Source: Jane Austen's Bookshelf
“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
“A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.”
“A work done in haste is waste.”
“A work environment becomes counterproductive if it is filled with dissatisfaction, negativity, unresolved complaints, and desire to win at the cost of others.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!”
“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained
“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.”
Source: The past recaptured