Top 100 Quotes About After All
#1. After all," as he wrote years later, "work is still the best way of escaping from life!
Mason Currey
#2. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#3. What are we, after all, without our memories ... without our dreams?
Nicholas Sparks
#4. You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.
Stephanie Perkins
#5. If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.
H.G.Wells
#6. Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.
Paulo Coelho
#8. How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.
Drake
#9. After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.
Guy De Maupassant
#10. She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure.
Michel Faber
#11. My dearest Aurora, Your destiny is not as far off as you think. After all, you were named after the goddess of morning - a new dawn is what you are. You will bring change to many a life.
Candace Knoebel
#12. We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality ... the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.
Henry Louis Gates
#13. We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.
H.G.Wells
#14. Was I not mad, after all, for journeying to this place, of my own free will? "And all for what? Original lust? Die before trying as a matter of trust, I see with staked hands a man before us, who fixes, and features and burrows a bribe, like a Pallas Athene, a winter-crossed bride.
Benjamin Robert Carrico
#15. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Walter Pater
#16. When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#17. I was twelve, after all, an age at which kids are bewildered and amorphous, transforming overnight, no matter how stable their lives are;
Tana French
#18. I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.
Roger Bannister
#20. What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it."
"Isn't it?
Ayn Rand
#21. People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?
Tana French
#22. country of ours consists of pioneers, after all, these new Poles and Italians and Jews as well as the
Anonymous
#23. She did, after all, like a bit of menace in her men. She also liked it rough when it came right down to it. Or at least the idea of rough. No man had ever actually given her what she really wanted, or needed for that matter.
Ella Dominguez
#24. But it was iron after all, and when you ask iron a question it doesn't answer.
Wieslaw Mysliwski
#25. After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?
Melissa Kantor
#26. After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren't we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things.
Ayse Kulin
#27. So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
Victoria Woodhull
#28. I'm surprised I still have so much hair after all the things I've done with it.
David Beckham
#29. After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.
Nevil Shute
#30. I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place.
Marcia Muller
#31. Maybe love doesn't require falling after all. Maybe it only requires that you choose to be in it. I wasn't sure what was going to happen with us or how much time we had left, but I wasn't going to waste a second of it.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#32. It was how mothers carried on, after all, with a glint in the eye that implied a sure clairvoyance and also that it was your turn to talk. This was the velvet rope mothers offered: enough silence to make a noose with. Mary
Chris Cleave
#33. Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.
Graham Joyce
#34. Create desire. After all, desire needed no explanation. The heart wants what it wants, most people would say. But what makes the heart want in the first place? No one ever asked that question.
Tony Bertauski
#35. She shook her head. "I can't believe you got bit and you didn't even get an orgasm out of it. I guess True Blood isn't true after all.
Suzanne Johnson
#36. Greatness often mingles with insanity. They are, after all, old friends.
Melissa West
#37. And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor
Orson Scott Card
#38. Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After all, to be the hero, I have to win.
Sarah C. Yung
#39. No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
Jackie DeShannon
#40. Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.
Dean Koontz
#41. All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon
#42. I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest.
Cassandra Clare
#43. For after all, a poster does more than simply
supply information on the goods it advertises;
it also reveals a society's state of mind
Armin Hofmann
#44. To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
Stanley Hauerwas
#45. Are you sure you wouldn't like to run? A game of tag, perhaps? All we have is time, you know. An eternity of time. Or shall we end it? Might as well. After all, we're missing the party.
Stephen King
#46. Death by a blow or just by the fall?" asked Detective Zach, who was standing beside me at the accident site. "Do you have maybe an X-ray machine with you?" I replied angrily. "After all, I would be grateful if I could have your finding today," said Zach.
Scott Andrew Selby
#47. If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,
how much anxiety and danger would vanish.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?
Miuccia Prada
#49. After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.
David Crosby
#50. To tell the truth, I had found it very hard to follow his reasoning, first because I was hot and there were big flies in his office that kept landing on my face, and also because he was scaring me a little. At the same time I knew that that was ridiculous because, after all, I was the criminal.
Albert Camus
#51. After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.
Edmond Rostand
#52. For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#53. Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.
Walter De La Mare
#54. After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Amy Tan
#55. I still think of her as mine. After all this time, when I think of Meredith, she's my Meredith. Irrational? Yes.
Stupid? Most definitely.
But I don't give a fuck.
Kristen Proby
#56. Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoarders, after all. Not so different from Librarians.
Genevieve Cogman
#57. Wisdom in hindsight is, after all, our only exact science.
June Thomson
#58. He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him inside her visions. Gods, he wanted to rescue her. After all, she had rescued him; she had become his heroine a long time ago, before his death became imminent.
Madison Thorne Grey
#59. Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?
Ralph Waldo Trine
#60. When I first saw you, I saw love
And the first time you touched me, I felt love
And after all this time,
You're still the one I love.
Shania Twain
#61. It's okay," he said. "We're together." He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
Rick Riordan
#62. My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle!
I mean, if I'd been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?
James Patterson
#63. There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.
Dwight L. Moody
#64. I am too good at making you see what you want to see. It has been hard my whole life to make that picture seem so perfect. The perfect daughter in the perfect family who was after all not so perfect. There was again only the illusion of what outsiders wanted to see.
Abigail George
#65. After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script.
Donald Miller
#66. See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
Homer
#67. Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#68. After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
L.M. Montgomery
#69. After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
Anna Quindlen
#70. After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
Eva Gabor
#71. The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#72. From Daddy to Dad in thirty seconds. We were strangers after all.
Ellen Hopkins
#73. My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman
#75. I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all.
Sophie, you're practically a midget," he reminded her.
Sarah Mayberry
#76. He wondered for an idle moment if he'd ever see her again, but it didn't look likely. You have to be realistic, after all, and getting through tomorrow seemed like quite the ambition.
Joe Abercrombie
#77. I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.
Stephane Hessel
#78. One aspect of perfection, after all, it stands to reason, will be that our need for imperfection will cease. Or, perhaps more precisely: that imperfection itself will cease to have meaning.
Ron Currie Jr.
#79. After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President's secretary, it erased portions of the official record.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#80. I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families
our ancestors
are our identities. Biology is destiny.
I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.
Aimee Friedman
#81. Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
Howard Zinn
#82. Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.
Charles Dickens
#83. After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
Henry Miller
#84. After all, the function of a vacation is regenerative, not luxurious. It's to restore our equipment so that we can live our ordinary lives better.
Malcolm Bradbury
#85. Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
Aimee Bender
#86. He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.
Mary Balogh
#87. It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#88. A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.
Steve Almond
#89. After all, we all know Hide and Seek can be a scary game, especially when we don't want to be found.
Callie Hunter
#90. After all, just because you're at the office is no reason to stop thinking.
Anonymous
#91. Raven briefly pondered the phrase, "staring down the barrel of a gun". It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After all, it was too dark to see any features down a barrel, only a black circle at the end of it.
A. Ashley Straker
#92. After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
Sylvia Plath
#93. After all there was good in the old ways ... there was good in the new order too.
Edith Wharton
#94. I don't get discouraged because of the comments. After all, they don't really know me.
Jay Park
#95. Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#96. What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.
Evgeni Plushenko
#97. What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#98. I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.
Jorge Luis Borges
#99. Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.
Nathan W. Morris
#100. It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.
Neal A. Maxwell
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