Scott Adams Quotes

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

Scott Adams

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• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

  

  Larry King
  • Never
  • Caucus
  • Iowa

• Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • God
  • She
  • Amazing

• Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Nature

• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Health

• I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Father
  • Feelings
  • Progress

• Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • People
  • Truth
  • Secret

• The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Enjoy
  • Poor

• You always speak the language you hear most.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Hear

• Fear is the foundation of safety.

  

  Tertullian
  • Fear
  • Safety
  • Foundation

• My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.

  

  Homer
  • My Life
  • Wealth

• Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happiness
  • Successes
  • Forgiven

• Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Money
  • Fame

• For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Wonderful
  • Produce
  • Recognise

• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Fall
  • Ride
  • Chances

• There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

  

  Mike Wallace
  • Help
  • Depression
  • Safe

• Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Chances
  • Parachute
  • Needing