Adam Quote by Anonymous

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“by this that it was clear that Adam had been right before — he hadn’t meant to be condescending. “He was an Australian outlaw.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that…

— Henry Adams

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to…

— David Lodge

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around…

— Ambrose Bierce

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“word in block capitals, and when he wasn’t certain of the spelling he put down the possible alternative letters below; he wanted to be…

— Jeffrey Archer

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,…

— Haruki Murakami

“... in 1912, although he, more even than other members of the Senate and the House, thought himself presidential timber (a delusion from which…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed…

— Samuel Butler