quotes by people whose name begins with an a:
"The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
Lord Acton
"On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had acheived so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams
"It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."
Alfred Adler, Problems of Neurosis Thanks Lou
"I speak to those who know; to those who don't my mind's a blank. I never say a word."
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen
"Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminuation of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty."
Amiel, Journal
"God is not dead but alive and well and working on a far less ambitious project."
Anonymous
"Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat."
Jean Anouilh, Eurydice
"One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose."
Jean Anouilh, Cecile
"Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle. Conquer your heart; then you may become somebody."
Ansari of Herat
"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
Aristotle
"Parents love their children more than children love their parents."
Auctoritates Aristotelis
"We played this gig in Norwich and this guy comes up to me and says, 'can I tell you something? I think you're a cunt! And I thought, Wow! I've really moved this guy!"
Richard Ashcroft, Thanks Steven
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius