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

• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Success
  • Deep

• 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

• There are different audiences out there, and everyone has different tastes of what they want. And it's a good thing because otherwise, there wouldn't be enough stuff to go around.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Good
  • Different

• Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • May
  • Truth

• What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.

  

  Lesley Visser
  • Why
  • Respect
  • Competition

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

  

  Ada Velez
  • Truth
  • Loyalty
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