John Adams Quotes

There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species.

John Adams

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• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Addict
  • Alcoholic

• That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Music
  • Night
  • Party

• I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Power

• I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Happy
  • Football
  • Tennis

• I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Judgment
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Beauty
  • Magic
  • Moment

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Together
  • Strong

• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Today
  • Lies
  • Sea

• Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • King
  • Civil Rights

• I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Money
  • My Life

• Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

  

  Wendell Berry

• I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Thinking
  • Words

• I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Works

• I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

  

  Joshua Malina
  • Avoid
  • Sentiment

• There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species.

  

  John Adams