John Quincy Adams Quotes

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.

John Quincy Adams

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• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

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• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

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• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

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• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

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• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

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• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  

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• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

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• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

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• I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.

  

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• Poetry is a magic of pauses ... not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.

  

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• This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Hand