Amos Quotes

#1. He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him

Amos Oz

#2. Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

Amos Bronson Alcott

#3. You mean on YouTube?" "No, I mean I was watching the game when you got laid out. Hardest hit I've ever seen. I don't know how you survived it, Amos, I really don't." "Why'd

David Baldacci

#4. In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

Amos Oz

#5. I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

John Amos

#6. I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

Wally Amos

#7. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#8. I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

Tori Amos

#9. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

Tori Amos

#10. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.

Tori Amos

#11. Pretty is never beautiful.

Tori Amos

#12. Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

Tori Amos

#13. It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

Wally Amos

#14. While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

Shawn Amos

#15. Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#16. The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.

Amos Oz

#17. As soon as you stop being humbled by the creation process, Little One, it is so much bigger than you are. And when you think it is you and you are it, it will drown you or burn you alive.

Tori Amos

#18. There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Tori Amos

#19. I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

Amos Otis

#20. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.

Amos Oz

#21. Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

Tori Amos

#22. I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy ... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

John Amos

#23. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

#24. If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Tori Amos

#25. Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Zig Ziglar

#26. Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone.

Amos Wilson

#27. I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

Tori Amos

#28. The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

Tori Amos

#29. It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair.

Tori Amos

#30. I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Tori Amos

#31. I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

Shawn Amos

#32. Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Tori Amos

#33. I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

Tori Amos

#34. If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

Amos Oz

#35. Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don't comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God's love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.

Amos Smith

#36. The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

Shawn Amos

#37. My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Tori Amos

#38. I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

Tori Amos

#39. Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.

Tori Amos

#40. Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's

Michael Lewis

#41. Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

George Amos Dorsey

#42. Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.

Tori Amos

#43. No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#44. I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

Tori Amos

#45. Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

Shawn Amos

#46. There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

Tori Amos

#47. As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

Tori Amos

#48. There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#49. When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.

Tori Amos

#50. On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

Tori Amos

#51. Many can argue - not many converse.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#52. The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

Shawn Amos

#53. None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#54. Naomi's a good person," Amos said. "I like her, you know? Like my kid sister, only smart and I'd do her if she let me. You know?" "Yeah," Miller said. "I like her too." "She's

James S.A. Corey

#55. I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

Tori Amos

#56. I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Tori Amos

#57. Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch.

James S.A. Corey

#58. Love is like a lost fart. If you have to force it, it's probably shit.

Stephen K. Amos

#59. If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Amos Oz

#60. Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Amos Bronson Alcott

#61. Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.

Shawn Amos

#62. I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Tori Amos

#63. If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

Tori Amos

#64. Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

Amos Oz

#65. There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.

Tori Amos

#66. Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

Wally Amos

#67. Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.

Amos Oz

#68. They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.

Amos Elon

#69. New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.

Shawn Amos

#70. Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

Tori Amos

#71. Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

Tori Amos

#72. Last man standing," Amos replied with another grin. "It's in my job description.

James S.A. Corey

#73. Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#74. When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

Tori Amos

#75. Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

Wally Amos

#76. Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#77. The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

Tori Amos

#78. All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.

James F. Amos

#79. Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

Tori Amos

#80. There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Tori Amos

#81. My whole life, I've never loved anything else

Amos Oz

#82. I don't see music as working.

Tori Amos

#83. People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

Tori Amos

#84. Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

Amos Elon

#85. Here's the thing," Amos said. "If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we'd all be doing things, and we'd all wind up having a worse day, just in general.

James S.A. Corey

#86. Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#87. Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

John Amos Comenius

#88. If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Tori Amos

#89. Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Amos Bronson Alcott

#90. It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

Tori Amos

#91. And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.

Tori Amos

#92. In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be.

James S.A. Corey

#93. I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

Tori Amos

#94. I'm very at home working with mythology.

Tori Amos

#95. Oh, I know. But it's like my eyes are forcing those patterns on stars that aren't really lined up the right way to make them." There was another moment of silence, then Amos said, "That's, like, one of them metaphors, right?" "It is now." "Buy

James S.A. Corey

#96. Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Wally Amos

#97. I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

Tori Amos

#98. The floor went completely black when Mr. Amos pulled the door shut. I couldn't see it now, but I'd rememorized the exact shape the stain was in. The padlock snapped shut with the loudest click I'd ever heard.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#99. In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished

Tori Amos

#100. Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

Tori Amos