Q Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Q. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.”
“Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.”
“Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.”
Source: The Maze Runner Trilogy
“Quit waiting for others to give to you; it is not going to happen.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!”
“Quit while you're a head, that's what I say.”
“Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.”
“Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.”
Source: Hope for Today Bible
“Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.”
“Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.”
“Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.”
“Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.”
“Quit worrying! Final exams don't hold a lot of meaning in one's life."
"Well said! That's our Ichigo! Let's share the pain of being morons!!!”
Source: Bleach, Volume 04
“Quit worrying so much about the boards and nails of your life. Focus on the stuff that lasts.” He glanced through the window toward the glowing light of the kitchen where Meg and my mom were laughing about something.”
“Quit your boohooing and give me a boost into the dumpster.”
Source: Hijinks
“Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return.”
“Quit your whining, powder puff. In the marines we trained in sub zero temperatures. Do you want me to fetch you a dressing gown? How about some slippers too?”
Source: Soren: The Angel & The Prize Fighter
“Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
“Quitamos el polvo para barrer y eliminar las pasiones y los sufrimientos mundanos. Limpiamos la suciedad para desprendernos de las obsesiones y del apego a las cosas. Vivimos plenamente el tiempo que dedicamos a limpiar minuciosamente cada rincón del templo.”
“Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go these days. Kind of like the Pied Piper." Behind me, Finn huffed out his displeasure. "Minion? I am most certainly not a mere minion. Head minion, perhaps. At the very least.”
“Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.”
“Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.”
“Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.”
“Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.”
“Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.”
“Quite a lot is a large amount but quite a few is also a large amount.”
Source: Words Fail Me
“Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.”
Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
“Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices (pursuing a creative career instead of making money; breastfeeding over formula; not having children in an overpopulated world) as the only right or natural ones by denouncing others' as selfish and wrong. So it's easy to overlook that it all arises out of insecurity.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“Quite a lot of what we normally think of as human culture doesn't fit some definition. What are the values behind cuisine, which is a form of human culture? Does it have deep values? I don't know - I would say not. But maybe I'm not a foodie.”
“Quite a memory, Mr. Ludefance. I’m impressed. Did you at any time during this encounter think about the fact that the now dead person was there to steal the iPhones with the four billion in cryptocurrency?”
“It occurred to me.”
“And you still took aim and shot him?”
“Detective, there was a gun pointed at me. Yes, I shot first. And I’d do the same thing again.”
Source: Uncanny Alliance
“Quite a number of writers comment on the decidedly human character of the fairies, but it must be obvious that practically all supernaturals partake of human traits, more usually unpleasant ones, being as they are the projections of man's fear and imagination and created by him, psychologically, in his own image. Fairies are frequently described as being peevish, irritable, and revengeful to a degree. Grant Stewart says rather unmercifully of the Scottish fairies that "their appetites are as keen as their inclinations are corrupt and wicked.”
Source: British Fairy Origins
“Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.”
Source: The Keeper of the Door
“Quite a story.” Elyas nodded. “Yes, quite a story. There’s a few things wrong with it, but the
main thing is Dapple says it’s all a lump of lies. Every last word.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.”
“Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.”
Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)
“Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....”
Source: Good Morning, Midnight
“Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”
“Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.”
“Quite apart from cringing at the thought of being called queer or gay, he did not want to be labelled anything at all that would cause presumptions to be made about his tastes and aspirations in life, which he did not think were anyway very different from most people’s.”
Source: Alexander's Choice
“Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives”
“Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views.”
“Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.”
Source: In Defence of Politics
“Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.”
“Quite. But Hedy has inherited her mother's skills as a seamstress.
Very good. Tell her to come and see me. If you can't sew, can you knit?
A little. Although I made my father a pair of socks once and he said he would only wear them on Sundays because they were so holey. One of the volunteers snorted with laughter.”
Source: The Air Raid Book Club
“Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.”
“Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.”
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
“Quite definitely a Bingley”
Source: The Mischief of the Mistletoe
“Quite," Detective Vidal pronounced as though he'd learned his English in a British finishing school. "Even Madame Rachel, who sat right beside, could not tell.”
Source: Mademoiselle le Sleuth
“Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.”
“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.”