Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amos Lee

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

Amy Bloom

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

Amy Bloom

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Amos Oz

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

Amy Adams

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.

Amy Carmichael

All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'

Amy Carmichael

There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Amos Bronson Alcott

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

Amos Bronson Alcott

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

Alveda King

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

Anthony Collins

Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.

Anthony Eden

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

Anthony Hamilton

Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man.

Anthony Hamilton

You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

Anthony Daniels

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Anthony de Mello

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

Anne Taintor

...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

Annette Funicello

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

Anna Katharine Green

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Anna Kournikova

If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on the world.... I could snap my fingers and have any man I wanted, but I have too much respect for myself for that.... People can look then wonder about the taste and the sensuous delights of the dish, but when it comes down to it they simply can't afford such an expensive luxury.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Angela Davis

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

Angela Davis

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Amy Hempel

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

Amy Hempel

Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?

Alvar Aalto

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

Alvin Ailey

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Allison Janney

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

Allison Janney

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

Anne Perry

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.