Adam Quotes - Page 16

• Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

  C. S. Lewis

  Son, Religion, Might

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.96, Harper Collins

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• Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

  Jenny Downham

  Blessed, Fall, Kissing

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• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Grief, Believe

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• It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Water, Parent

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• The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Men, Humanity, Historical

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• Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Class

  "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers".

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• If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.

  Anita Bryant

  Normal, Homosexuality, Ifs

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• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.

  Colin Fletcher

  Exercise, Men, Simplicity

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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• Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Naked, World

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• Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be spiced with disaster, except of course in sport. It was all very well for Adam Lindsay Gordon to have shot himself, but it would never have done for Don Bradman.

  Geoffrey Dutton

  Sports, Distance, Tragedy

  Geoffrey Dutton (1981). “The Australian Heroes: A Rousing Roll Call of 47 of Australia's Greatest Heroes and Heroines”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Gentleman, Dying

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [32]

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• EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Play, Names

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.270, Anchor

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• Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hunters, Ghost

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• Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation

  Ann M. Martin

  People, World, Littles

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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• Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. "Yes," observed Adam blandly. "I do." Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Rude, Missing

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• If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I’ll—” I didn’t get to finish the threat. I think it was the word “naked,” though maybe it was “bed,” but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam

  Patricia Briggs

  Thinking, Waiting, Making Love

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.215, Penguin

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• In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

  Candace Bushnell

  Girl, Fire, Apples

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• Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Memories, Paradise

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• When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think of Adam in those pre-marital days. I know he's your great-to-the-nth-degree-granddad and all - but I'm afraid he was rather an imbecile.

  Glen Duncan

  Children, Thinking, Hair

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Vaccines, Black, Birth

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.121, Delacorte Press

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• Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Men, Wanted

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• The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

  A. A. Milne

  Children, Fun, Writing

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• There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

  Adam Young

  Color, Different, Canvas

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• After the woman left, I set my coffee down and opened the bag. Two muffins-double-chocolate and blueberry bran. I texted Adam a thank-you. I’d just started eating the chocolate muffin when he texted backPut that one down and eat the bran. It’s better foryou.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Coffee, Two, Chocolate

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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