Adopted Quotes

328 quotes by 292 authors

As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it… — Adolf Hitler
Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding… — Joseph Rotblat
My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted. — Nia Vardalos
On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted. — Joan Rivers
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and… — Benito Mussolini
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those… — Erich von Stroheim
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless… — John Calvin
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through… — Hyman Rickover
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son.… — Connie Chung
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. — William Cobbett
If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate… — John R. Lott Jr.
All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of… — Manmohan Singh
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives… — Bertrand Russell
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts… — Richard Overy
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the… — Otto Hahn
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but… — Henry Ford
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work… — Henry Ford
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln

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