Adam Quotes

• But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

  

  Emilia Lanier
  • Blame
  • Shame
  • Fault

• We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Important
  • Film
  • Audience

• I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Opinion

• The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Opportunity
  • Garden
  • Devil

• Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

  

  John Milton
  • Love
  • Mysterious
  • Spouse

• Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Body
  • Cold
  • Winter

• Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Remember
  • Eye
  • Arms

• Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to their Creator. But the loving God has drawn them to Himself by the bonds of love, as He promised by the prophet Osee [Hosea]: "I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bonds of love" (11:4). These bonds are the benefits, the lights, the calls to His love, the promises of Paradise which He makes to us, but above all, the gift which He has bestowed upon us of Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of the Cross and in the Sacrament of the Altar...

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Men
  • Earth

• Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Character
  • Play
  • Brilliant

• I know Geno Atkins is a big anime fan. Cameron Jordan, Larry Warford, my boy Adam Gettis is a big anime fan.

  

  Mike Daniels
  • Anime
  • Jordan
  • Cameron

• Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.

  

  Bryan Sykes
  • Adam
  • Y-chromosome
  • Male aggression

• We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Film
  • Clear
  • Communicate

• Women were invented ages ago, before the 1960s, because God realised very quickly that Adam needed an audience for his jokes.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • God
  • Women
  • Jokes

• Where Eve chooses to go, Adam is bound to travel.

  

  Bryan Sykes
  • Adam
  • Eve

• How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Father
  • Minds

• There is no doubt that all men from Adam on have had to repent in order to have a right relationship with God. The importance of repentance is demonstrated by the fact that men of every biblical age preached it.

  

  Curtis Hutson
  • God
  • Men
  • Relationship

• That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam — Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Important
  • Done
  • Identity

• We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Environment
  • Ideas
  • Young

• It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Fall
  • Certain
  • Fine

• To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Theatre
  • Curse
  • Critic

• But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Language
  • Adam

• Adam, who said to Eve, What do you mean you have nothing to wear? Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Mean
  • Nothing
  • Dinner

• There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • God
  • Woman
  • Slave

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