Richard Adams Quotes

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

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• A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • Future
  • Helpful

• Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Smart
  • Awesome
  • Questions

• I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

  

  Carole King
  • School
  • Done
  • High

• You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Business
  • Marriage
  • Treat

• It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

  

  Confucius
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Dominance

• Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hope
  • Failure
  • Promise

• All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Stages
  • Self-restraint
  • Devised

• We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • What
  • We Are
  • Have Been

• To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Honest
  • Human being
  • Best Effort

• It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Sport
  • Phenomenon
  • Historian

• I had been stopped a couple of times -- once in a Lexus and in a Blazer. Both of the cars had factory sound systems. I understand the citizen's position on noise, but the city was towing cars that didn't have loud sound systems. When it happened to me, I knew there was something wrong.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • City
  • Couple
  • Happened

• You're always homesick.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Homesick

• Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Ability
  • Talk
  • Underestimate

• It contains some - not all, but some - of the things I want my daughters to know. And the greatest of these is love. please know that you had mine, unconditional, and powerful and awesome. So strong that I can't believe it will die with me. I want to imagine it as a living thing that goes beyond my body and my death, as a vine that has grown and wound its way through the very core of you all, and cannot be uprooted or destroyed, but rather will hold you erect when everything else is crumbling and withering inside you.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Imagine

• Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again. Love heals, forgives, and makes whole.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Problem
  • Love Is
  • Destroyed

• Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Destroyed
  • Spoiled