A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.”
“Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.”
“Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?”
“Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.”
“Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."”
“Adler Beck may be German, but he's mastered the French kiss.”
Source: First Flight, Final Fall
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“Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.”
“Administration officials, in fact, have repeatedly condemned ISIS for its treatment of religious minorities, including Christians. But a bipartisan resolution now moving through Congress calls on the administration to go further and say ISIS is guilty of genocide.”
“ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!”
“Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
“Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life it is important.”
“Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.”
“Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.”
“Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.”
“Admirable, Kol thought bitterly, guilt gnawing in his gut. You’re wrong about me, Adella. He let out a guttural shout as he threw the book, and it slammed against the wall. You hired me to protect you, and I left. Now you’re gone— He pressed his hands into his wet eyes, his breath coming out in ragged gasps.”
Source: Legends of Andolin: Rising Tides
“ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.”
“Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!”
“Admiral McPhearson put his arms around Anderson and hugged him. At that moment, admiral and lieutenant became father and son.”
Source: Murder on the Naval Base
“Admiral Nelson won the great Battle of Trafalgar against the French during the Napoleonic Wars. The Viscount of Camperdown, who also won many battles during that period, was one of the admirals under Nelson. The Viscount of Canperdown's family crest had a ship with full sails on it and with two little Latin words: Disce pai—"Lean to suffer." That is precisely what Peter and Paul and Job and Moses and Jesus would say to you and me as believers in the fallen world. "Learn to suffer.”
Source: Does Grace Grow Best in Winter?
“Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.”
“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”
“Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.”
“Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases”
Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.”
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
“Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.”
Source: Outspoken essays
“Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'”
“Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.”
“Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”
Source: The spectator
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.”
Source: The spectator
“Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.”
“Admiration is calm and quiet, obsession is loud. Obsessed with love or hate, it doesn't matter. It pushes to the front of the line, either way.”
Source: Wish You Were Her
“Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.”
Source: Measure of My Days
“Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.”
“Admiration is oxygen for one's literary or professional works.”
“Admiration is pure adventure.”
“Admiration is the basis of ignorance.”
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen”
“Admiration is the feeling you get when you find that someone is superior to you, or someone is better than you in certain ways.”
“Admiration isn’t flattery. Admiration is showing earned respect.”
“Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.”
Source: The Rambler
“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Admiration spoils all from infancy.”
Source: Pensées
“Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.”
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”