John Quincy Adams Quotes
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - 'Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.'
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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It could be worse. I can’t think how right now, but I’m sure it could be worse.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - 'Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.'
