Richard Adams Quotes

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

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• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Years
  • Will
  • Guilt

• I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Working
  • Out
  • Incapable

• What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Suffering
  • Color
  • Literature

• I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Day
  • Son

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Safe
  • Daring

• I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Present

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Different
  • Really
  • Sarcastic

• It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • People
  • You
  • Religion

• I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Man
  • Die

• I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Magic
  • Romantic

• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.

  

  Dylan Baker

• Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

  

  Kurt Browning
  • Fun
  • Preparation

• There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.

  

  Jenny Han

• People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • True
  • Strong
  • Struggle

• Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

  

  Jesse Livermore

• I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Drama

• We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Trying
  • Humans
  • Being