A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Adam translated, "Not death, but his brother, sleep.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.”
“Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue’s wonder made it holy.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.”
“Adam was a super being when God created him...”
“Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.”
“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
“Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.”
Source: The Shadow of an Agony
“Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.”
Source: Luther's Works, Volume 1 (Genesis Chapters 1-5)
“Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.”
“Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“Adam was not applying the action of naming to exert and apply authority over the beings he named; he did it for the purpose of finding a helper. When Adam named Eve, therefore, he was not exerting authority over her, since naming had no impact on Adam’s authority over the animals.”
Source: Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
“Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.”
Source: The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The Fourth Portion
“Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.”
“Adam was told to name the animals. Adam studied each kind and gave them a name based on his observations. Every animal “kind” has some behavior or characteristic that is unique to that animal type. When you know the Hebrew name for an animal, you get a peek at how a perfect man, speaking a perfect language, understood that perfect animal.”
Source: The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians
“Adam was too lazy and cautious. But Eve who came after him dared to go and get the forbidden fruit.”
“Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.”
“Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Adam, who said to Eve, What do you mean you have nothing to wear? Never got a dinner!”
“Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!”
“ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“adamant though we may be to abandon our motherlands, because god knows we have had enough of them, enough of their stupidities and absurdities and hostilities and cruelties, the truth is they will never abandon us.”
Source: How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
“Adamant was clearly not long on tact. Periapt had tried to be diplomatic and Adam had blundered right into what could have been an uncomfortable moment.
But the girl in question just laughed and the awkwardness passed.
For a moment Andie sobered. Because the way that Adam had so bluntly blurted "Like eat her," reminded her that these were 'dragons' after all, and there were as many "bad" dragons as "good" dragons. And, yes, if the compulsion had been strong enough, they would have eaten the maidens. They would have felt dreadful afterward, but-
But they 'were' dragons. This was what dragons sometimes did.
She had to chuckle a second time, because after so short a time with them, the two were now "Peri" and "Adam" in her mind, and they already showed distinct personalities.”
Source: One Good Knight
“Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.”
“Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially by a Person of Adams's Figure, returned the Favour with so much Gratitude, that the Parson's Nostrils likewise began to look a little redder than usual.”
Source: Joseph Andrews
“Adams drew back. He wanted Hannah, but he did not live for her. Making a name for himself was more important. He told her that he could not marry for years, until his practice was established. He knew that his honesty would doom the relationship, and Hannah in fact began to see others. Adams's ambition had triumphed over love.”
Source: Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution
“Adams first law of survival: Get even first.”
“ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.”
“Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find the best dosage and possible side-effects as well as or better than adults, ... Once the initial studies are done that is, phase I trials in adults study should begin in children.”
“Adamu na Hawa walipotenda dhambi waligundua kuwa kumbe walikuwa na miili, walipogundua kuwa walikuwa uchi, kisha Mungu akawalaani. Miili yao ikakosa thamani mbele ya Mungu, sisi wote tukalaaniwa pamoja nao. Kwa Mungu hii miili haina thamani hata kidogo. Chenye thamani ni roho.”
“Adan necesitó a alguien, sin duda. Jamais habría tenido el coraje de comerse esa manzana él solito. Eva tendría que habérsela comido sin decirle nada e dejarlo andar errante como un asno por el Edén, un bruto ignorante idéntico a los otros brutos que lo rodeaban. el muy idiota ni siquera sabía que estaba desnudo. Y quem diablos cosió esos taparraboos de hojas de figuera, te pregunto? Él no habrá sido, de eso puede estar seguro.”
Source: Captives of the Night
“Adante cocked her head to the side. “What did you expect one of the Bahree to be? Intimidating and angry?”
“Yeah, something more like you,” he said with a disarming smile.
Adante rolled her eyes. “Very funny.”
Source: Luminous
“Adante rolled her eyes. She wished human males were mythical. That’d be a nice reality to wake up to.”
Source: Luminous
“Adaora was beginning to see why Ayodele’s people had chosen the city of Lagos. If they’d landed in New York, Tokyo or London, the governments of these places would have quickly swooped to hide, isolate and study the aliens. Here in Lagos, there was no such order.”
Source: Lagoon
“Adapt or die. It was savagely simple."
-- Celeste
ALL LIGHT WILL FALL”
Source: All Light Will Fall
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
Source: The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether
“Adapt to any situation.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Adapt to every circumstance.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Adapt to the body training you never tried, to attain something you never did.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.”
Source: Quoth the Maven: More on Language from William Safire
“Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.”
“Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.”
“Adapt yourself to the needs of the people”
“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”
“adaptability and emotional intelligence are cornerstones of a thriving workplace culture”
“Adaptability and innovation are the root of victory. Chaos and fear are the birth of defeat.”
“Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.”