Adopted Quotes - Page 12

• Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

  Jim Clyburn

  Independent, Years, Oil

  17 Copy quote

• I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

  David Gallagher

  Football, Team, School

  56 Copy quote

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  Ed Gillespie

  Moving, Self, September 11

  7 Copy quote

• China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010.

  Hu Jintao

  Energy, Climate, Target

  Hu Jintao’s Speech on Climate Change, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Home, India, Want

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'" by Taslima Nasrin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Museums

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Ideas, Rights, Intellectual

  7 Copy quote

• Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

  Criss Jami

  True Love, Spiritual, Unconditional Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.121, Criss Jami

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.

  Criss Jami

  Biblical, Order, Brain

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

  Rich Lowry

  Presidential, Different, Three

  6 Copy quote

• For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Media, Korea, Years

  12 Copy quote

• Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.

  Antonin Scalia

  Thinking, Order, Law

  "Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co., 491 U.S. 1". supreme.justia.com. June 15, 1989.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

  Nico

  Dad, People, Language

  5 Copy quote

• Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ.  This is who we are.  This is our identity.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, Identity

  6 Copy quote

• We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.

  Michael Corbat

  Strong, Unique, Play

  4 Copy quote

• All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

  Reese Hoffa

  Please, Wanted

  4 Copy quote

• I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Father, Knows, Tall

  4 Copy quote

• As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Rights, Justice

  4 Copy quote

• The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Adoption, Important, Way

  52 Copy quote

• Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Principles, Justified

  10 Copy quote

• Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

  John McCain

  Children, Joy, Parent

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Fake, Hussein

  7 Copy quote

• I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Enemy, Citizens, Honorable

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.332, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

  Peg Bracken

  Wall, Thinking, Mirrors

  11 Copy quote

• Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Criminals, Doctrine

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source