Ada Velez Quotes

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

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• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • High
  • Words
  • Actions

• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • People
  • Never
  • Try

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • American

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Help
  • Story
  • My Life

• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Future
  • Human
  • Race

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Energy
  • Yourself
  • Boat

• To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave. The world would not be if not for my offspring. I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.

  

  Taliesin
  • World
  • May
  • Brave

• And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Stop
  • Crying

• Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Cold

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • God
  • May
  • Tree

• Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Good
  • Technology
  • Simple

• I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.

  

  Emeraude Toubia
  • Parents
  • Grandma

• I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Black
  • Cat

• People can argue about the pluses and minuses of marijuana, but everyone knows it’s not a killer drug like heroin.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Drug
  • Marijuana

• Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

  

  Plutarch
  • Sacrifice
  • Philosopher
  • Plato

• An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Intelligent
  • Loyalty

• I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn't move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Music
  • Fall

• I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

  

  Ada Velez
  • Truth
  • Loyalty
  • Pledge