Adopted Quotes
328 quotes by 288 authors
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Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
— Helen Keller
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This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some…
— Carol Edgarian
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Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they…
— Josh Duhamel
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. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous…
— Henri Poincare
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It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in…
— George Blake
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Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour…
— Winston Churchill
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I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents,…
— Gregory Corso
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The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious…
— Rodney Atkins
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. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One…
— Milton Friedman
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Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging…
— Francois Quesnay
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Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.
— Linda Blair
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Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September…
— Barack Obama
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Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want…
— Albert Mohler
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A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin,…
— John Wooden
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All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them.
— Bill Goldberg
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Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,…
— Martina Navratilova
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Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and…
— Ilona Andrews
Who Wrote These Adopted Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 328 Adopted Quotes, led by these top contributors: