Adopt Quotes

410 quotes by 366 authors

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old. — Patti Stanger
I always knew I would adopt. Always. — Charlize Theron
A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress. — Tom Udall
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of… — John Oliver
If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere… — Douglas Rushkoff
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me,… — Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt. — Mark Twain
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death… — Michel de Montaigne
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things. — Norman Vincent Peale
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not… — Banana Yoshimoto
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course,… — Victor Hugo
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to… — Joan of Arc
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in… — Orson Scott Card
Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang… — James Patterson

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