Adopted Quotes

328 quotes by 288 authors

If the proposed ordinance is adopted it will hurt small women- and minority-owned businesses the most, the majority of which are already struggling mightily to… — Randy Hamilton
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is… — Melissa Etheridge
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home. — Taslima Nasrin
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know… — George Mikes
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that… — Jeffrey Sachs
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after… — Criss Jami
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense,… — Criss Jami
Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. — Rich Lowry
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were… — Gerhard Richter
I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of us are free… — M. J. Ryan
Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these… — Oliver Ellsworth
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. — Emmeline Pankhurst
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable… — Richard Cobden
I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools… — Godfrey Reggio
I've always known I was adopted. — Emily Procter
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have… — Hayley Atwell
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. — Charles Bass
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this… — Dan Chaon
I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. — Asia Argento
Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy… — Jim Clyburn

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