All Quotes

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
‐‐ Robin Quivers

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
‐‐ Finley Peter Dunne

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.
‐‐ Jed S. Rakoff

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public's desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
‐‐ John Tukey

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
‐‐ John Tuley

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
‐‐ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

An Arab who works and pays taxes is good for everyone. An Arab who doesn't work and receives social security stipends is bad for everyone.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
‐‐ Agatha Christie

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
‐‐ Christian de Portzamparc

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
‐‐ John Ruskin

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.
‐‐ Paul Davies

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.
‐‐ James Fenton

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
‐‐ Nancy Mitford

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
‐‐ Johan Huizinga

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
‐‐ Robert South

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.
‐‐ David Bowie

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.
‐‐ Nimrat Kaur

An army marches on its stomach.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
‐‐ Eric Shinseki

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
‐‐ Charles Mackay

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
‐‐ Eduard Hanslick

An art book is a museum without walls.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
‐‐ Van Cliburn

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
‐‐ John Glover

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
‐‐ Stephen Stills

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
‐‐ Jane Austen

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
‐‐ Maurice Chevalier

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.
‐‐ Timbaland

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
‐‐ Sebastian Horsley

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic