Adam Quotes - Page 23

• Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Angel, Son, Animal

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 60,

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• Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.

  Emilia Lanier

  Mother, Giving, Tree

  1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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• 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

  Weakness, Might, Faults

  1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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• Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.

  John Chamberlain

  Wisdom, War, Years

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• Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Children, Real, Community

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• All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles of consumption with money, the circulating medium with which we pay for them. We must in the first instance have bought this money itself by the sale of our produce.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Wisdom, Reality, Political

  Jean Baptiste Say (1936). “Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

  Robert South

  Men, Eden, Wrecks

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• Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Men, Should, Mary

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• If it weren't for my adam's apple, I'd have no shape at all.

  Phyllis Diller

  Apples, Shapes, Ifs

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.46, Penguin

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

  Red Buttons

  Mean, Dinner, Said

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• Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Garden, Eden, Ribs

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• Zerts' are what I call desserts. 'Trée-trées' are entrées. I call sandwiches 'sammies,' 'sandoozles,' or 'Adam Sandlers.' Air conditioners are 'cool blasterz' with a 'z' - I don't know where that came from. I call cakes 'big ol' cookies.' I call noodles 'long-ass rice.' Fried chicken is 'fry-fry chicky-chick.' Chicken parm is 'chicky-chicky-parm-parm.' Chicken cacciatore? 'Chicky-cacc.' I call eggs 'pre-birds,' or 'future birds.' Root beer is 'super water.' Tortillas are 'bean blankets.' And I call forks 'food rakes.'

  Aziz Ansari

  Beer, Air, Cake

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• I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!

  Adam Sandler

  Rich, Filthy Rich, Filthy

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• I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Fall, Men

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• If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

  Daniel Tosh

  Garden, Eden, Looks

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• I'm itching to see Usher & Shakira work their magic. And of course, Blake is so amazing! It was tough, but I went on my gut which was Adam.

  Judith Hill

  Magic, Tough, Blake

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• The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sight, Names, Speech

  Thomas Hobbes (2012). “Leviathan”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
  since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
  present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Age, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

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• In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

  Michael Ruse

  Uncles, Saint, Fiction

  "Adam and Eve Didn’t Exist. Get Over It!" by Michael Ruse, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? "To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.

  Ann Voskamp

  Giving, Making Love, Skins

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.217, Zondervan

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• The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

  Louie Giglio

  War, Men, Garden

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• The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for life and immortality. Now may each man, who has the sentence of Adam upon him, know that he is a kinsman of the Son of God. Now may he follow Him; and so, when the darkness is thickest around him and within, not walk in it, but see the Light of Life.

  Frederick Denison Maurice

  Son, Men, Light

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• Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

  Stella Benson

  Blessed, Blessing, Apples

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.

  Olivier Clement

  Fall, Animal, Two

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