John Adams Quotes

There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.

John Adams

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• My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Always
  • Drawing
  • Restaurant

• Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Help
  • Team

• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • President
  • Will
  • Accept

• I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Love
  • Day

• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • American
  • Day

• The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Change
  • Internet
  • Camera

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Nature
  • Football
  • Sports

• You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

  

  Hank Williams
  • You
  • Like
  • Sing

• Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Imagination
  • Lies
  • Creative

• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • See
  • Taste

• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Feel
  • Same
  • Lonely

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Wounded

• You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • You
  • Yourself

• I absolutely believe in the power of innovative entrepreneurship on every level. That's why I am exploring ways to improve our education system by making it as effective as a private tutor and as engaging as video games.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Power

• Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • World
  • God

• I hear a lot of, 'I'm a writer because of you.' It's not a bad feeling, but it sneaks up on you. You don't ask for it.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Up

• But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Streets
  • Remarkable
  • Eggs

• People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!

  

  Sean Connery
  • People
  • Street
  • Bond

• I had to get used to seeing Samantha Bee around. I had to get used to seeing Jon, like, getting a bagel, and to John Oliver, and all these people whom I had seen on TV. Colbert would sometimes drop by. I had to get used to being a part of this multiple-Emmy-winning machine and being this 22-year-old black girl who was really green.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Girl

• There is one Resolution I will not omit. Resolved that no Slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies.

  

  John Adams