John Adams Quotes
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
Quotes to Explore
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
Rachel Kushner
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz
I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
Jacki Weaver
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
Bill Nye
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
Joseph Brodsky
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. Lucas
Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.
Jayson Blair
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
