Adam Quotes - Page 27

• How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Names, Voice

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.263, Scholastic Inc.

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• Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.

  Maureen Dowd

  Cute, Believe, Kids

  "Just think No" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2012.

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• He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him." "How noble.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Nice, Trying, News

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• Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!

  Helen Rowland

  Mother, Sex, Like Her

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.77, Lulu.com

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• Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

  Wendell Phillips

  Taken, Sleep, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1891). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series”

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• Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Fall, Intelligent, Garden

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• I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

  Seth Rogen

  Funny, Cds, Firsts

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 13, 2005.

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• Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Moses, Prophet

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.328

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• If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.

  Alonso Duralde

  Brother, Film Critics, Would Be

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• In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

  George Eliot

  Men, Age, Singles

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.166

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• The perfect world, by Adam trod,
  Was the first temple--built by God--
  His fiat laid the corner stone,
  And heaved its pillars, one by one.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Perfect, World, Stones

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.72

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• It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

  George William Curtis

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

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• Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

  Oscar Wilde

  Nudity, Adam And Eve, Reserved

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• Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

  John Milton

  Hypocrite, Mysterious, Innocence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 738

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• St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Temptation, Desire

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.371

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• Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.113

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• Tis aye a solemn thing to me
  To look upon a babe that sleeps--
  Wearing in its spirit-deeps
  The unrevealed mystery
  Of its Adam's taint and woe,
  Which, when they revealed lie,
  Will not let it slumber so.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lying, Sleep, Looks

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783”

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• If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

  Dan Barker

  Son, Atheism, Speech

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• There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hands, Said, Deep Breath

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.213, Penguin

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• For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Waiting, Forever, Listening

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.78, Penguin

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• Another point important to recognize is that the creation was 'mature' from its birth. It did not have to grow or develop from simple beginnings. God formed it full-grown in every respect, including even Adam and Eve as mature individuals when they were first formed. The whole universe had an 'appearance of age' right from the start. It could not have been otherwise for true creation to have taken place. 'Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them' (Genesis 2:1).

  Henry M. Morris

  Taken, Simple, Heaven

  Henry M. Morris, John David Morris (1996). “Scripture and creation”

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• Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Book, Done, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.”, p.6, Booklassic

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• The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

  Carl Everett

  Sports, Dumb, Say Anything

  "10 Ratchet MLB Player Retirements That Kenny Powers Should Put to Shame" by Jose Martinez, www.complex.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Work, Garden, Hands

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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