Accounts Quote by John Quincy Adams

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.

— L.A. Paul

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters… better deep than shallow!

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

— Charles Haughey

“O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.”

— George Eliot

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

— Matthew Henry

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

— John Quincy Adams

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

— John Quincy Adams

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

— Livy

“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

— Idries Shah

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite.…

— Laini Taylor

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy,…

— Laozi