“Well, just remember this. When my ma got me, she picked what she wanted. But when your ma got you, she had… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“Donkey had spoken to and petted dozens of dogs she'd seen jogging along the road or poking around for food at the… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those… — Marc Levine Copy Share Image
I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Kendra had assumed that Catty was from some distant planet and that her extraordinary power was actually a form… — Lynne Ewing Copy Share Image
You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside… — Seth Copy Share Image
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's… — Alison Kitson Copy Share Image
Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
People ask me. 'What about gay adoptions? Interracial? Single Parent?' I say. "Hey fine, as long as it works for the child… — Dave Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with… — Mario Balotelli Copy Share Image
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
