Adam Quotes - Page 3

• If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

  R. H. Tawney

  Inspirational, Children, Work

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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• Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tattoo, Dream, Sleep

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• That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Warning, World

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen”, p.98, HarperCollins UK

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• God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Self, Needs

  "Worship: The Missing Jewel". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, June 1, 1992.

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• The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend.

  Russell T Davies

  Moon, Doctors, Rose

  "Doctor Who: The Long Game". TV Series, May 7, 2005.

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• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Children, Differences, Skins

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• [I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

  Moderata Fonte

  Evil, Greed, Mind

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.94, University of Chicago Press

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• And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Apples, Literature, Opinion

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• 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

  Fighting, Men, World

  "Jersey Devil". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

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• The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

  Max Muller

  Memories, Paradise, Pages

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

  Augustus Hare

  Home, Paradise, Descendants

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• He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

  Herman Melville

  Hate, Heart, Race

  Moby Dick ch. 41 (1851)

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• The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

  Jon Meacham

  Political, Might, Spending

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• If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Pride, Ifs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.

  Johnny Weir

  People, Support, My Family

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

  Henry Winkler

  Character, Play, Goofy

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• If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Pain, Garden, Self

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• He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Children, Thinking

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• Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Smell, Color

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.384, Library of America

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• Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.

  Annie Dillard

  Morning, Eden, Dust

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Competition, Arena

  "Viggo Mortensen Fights Nude In 'Eastern Promises' — But Could He Take Borat?". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. September 12, 2007.

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• Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Grateful, Cutting

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fun, Silly, Apples

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• My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Mom, Sarcastic, Sunday

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• Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

  James Wolcott

  Looks, Comedy, Shots

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