A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ability without honor has no value.”
“Ability without honor is useless.”
“Abituata alla tranquillità, desiderava per contrasto tutto ciò che era movimentato. Amava il mare soltanto per le sue tempeste, e la vegetazione soltanto se cresceva a stento e rada in mezzo alle rovine.”
Source: madame bovary
“Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.”
“Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.”
“Ablakom előtt
visszanyesem a fákat:
virradjon korán.”
Source: Vért hány a kakukk
“Ablamın verdiği terbiye beni çekingen, içli bir çocuk yapmıştı. Kimin tarafından yetiştirilirse yetiştirilsin, bir çocuğun küçücük evreninde en derinden sezilen, en ince algılanan şey, haksızlıktır. Çocuğa yapılan haksızlık küçücük bir şey olabilir. Ne var ki çocuk da, çocuğun dünyası da küçücüktür; bu ölçüler içinde çocuğun tahta atı en iri küheylanların boyundadır. Ablamın o esintili, hırslı baskısıyla bana haksızlık ettiğini, kendimi bildiğimden beri biliyordum.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.”
“Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.”
“Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.”
“Abled say - life is short.
Disabled say - death is far.
War, comes bringing death to many.
War, goes away leaving many wishing for death.”
Source: One Are We: war and peace
“Ableism has been defined as “the term used to describe the discrimination against and the exclusion of individuals with physical and mental disabilities from full participation and opportunity within society’s systems and activities.” Ableism is a useful lens through which to examine much of the rhetoric generated by the anti-vaccine movement as it pertains to autism.”
Source: Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
“Ableism is also an entire system of oppression. One big example is the fact that our entire capitalist system is built on the notion that the “best and the brightest” get ahead because they are “smarter” and “work harder”.”
“Ableism is discrimination against people with disabilities. It is the harboring of beliefs that devalue and limit the potential of people with physical, intellectual, or mental disorders and disabilities. For instance, people might believe that autistic people will never be an asset to society, and that they need to be “fixed” or “cured".”
Source: Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning
“Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.”
“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
“Abnormal environmental radiation exposures may bring out the savage predator in the human.”
“Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.”
Source: Little Brother
“Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.”
“Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions in conjunction with your prior environmental exposures, your health problems, your age, and the area that you grew up in and adapted to.”
“Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.”
“Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.”
Source: Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition
“Abnormally irradiated air may eventually be proven to present long term toxicity to the sea level adapted human.”
“Aboard a boat of leaves I float,
allowing new stories to unfold.
Of cresting and falling winds,
streaking words across the sky.
[A Writer’s Company]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“Aboard the gondola, Giacomo Foscarini sat facing Mathias. They were crossing the Canal Grande, then they would navigate around San Marco and return. Foscarini loved to travel around Venice this way. They stopped briefly at a mooring near the bridge to the Rialto, and Foscarini had a servant fetch green olives, fresh Piacenza cheese, a few sausages from Modena, and wine that had just been delivered from Crete. The nobleman often dined aboard his gondola, looking out over the city, watching his world. "Seen from this vantage point, Venice doesn't seem like it's in any of its terrible troubles at all magister," said Foscarini.”
Source: The Lion and the Rose
“Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.”
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
“Abolish all white teachers from schools
and universities across the world,
and replace them with noncaucasians,
and the human race will be decolonized
and properly civilized within a hundred years -
but then again, that would be just as inhuman,
ethnic cleansing doesn't cure ethnic cleansing,
so we have to go for the only humane alternative,
and sanitize every last textbook of all whitewashing.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.”
“Abolish or violate any law, rule or constitution is the act of disloyalty to the state and its people; it does not fall under the good faith; it is the way of the traitor. Giving legal status, such a traitor to any reason is itself a crime.”
“Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.”
“Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.”
“Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.”
“Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time”
Source: The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
“Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters”
“Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.”
“Abolishing the dualism between short-term and long-term goals necessitates iteration and the integration of feedback in our dynamic world.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Abolition of borders starts with the expansion of mind.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.”
“Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.”
Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
“Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.”
“ABOMINABLE, adj. The quality of another's opinions.”
Source: Collected Works: The Devil's Dictionary, Fantastic Fables and More!
“Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.”
“Aboriginal Okinawan Karate was traditionally taught in modest home Dojos, in small informal groups (sole purpose of teachings revolved around life preservation), in A closely tied supportive environment; unlike main island modern Japanese version with rivalry and competition, instructed in large groups belonging to even larger organizations with pseudo-militaristic hierarchy”
“Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.”