Adopted Quotes - Page 19

• The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Country, Class, Differences

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• In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.

  Maria V. Snyder

  War, What If, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin

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• We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Firsts, Theory

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

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• Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

  Gilda Radner

  Pain, Kids, Looks

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• Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

  John Calvin

  Evil, Fellowship, Kind

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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 of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, War, Men

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Different, World

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.50

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• Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has never changed, therefore nothing has essentially changed. I may not be who I thought I was, but I still am who he says I am. I am more. I am loved. I am his.

  Christine Caine

  May, Never Change, Found

  Christine Caine (2013). “Undaunted Student Edition: Daring to do what God calls you to do”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.” “She needed a ride.” I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?” “Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hands, Saws, Hips

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Opinion, Global Warming

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Controversy”, p.56, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with racism everyday. I'm the first black to wear the jersey of Italy. I'm not angry, but my life experiencies make me act differently from other people. Then, try to learn more before you criticize me.

  Mario Balotelli

  Angel, Italian, Ghana

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• A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

  Billy Collins

  Firsts, Succeed, Motto

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• Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

  George Santayana

  Function, Dear, Fulfilling

  The Life of Reason vol. 3, ch. 1 (1905)

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• Technology has to be invented or adopted.

  Jared Diamond

  Technology

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• At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

  Joseph Pilates

  Teaching, Progress, Truth Will Prevail

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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

  Dark, Thinking, Allies

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• Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Children, Believe

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• How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Discipline, Mind, Steps

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• Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

  Chris Crutcher

  Adoption, Bigs, Deals

  Chris Crutcher (2009). “Whale Talk”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe

  Dad, Children, Father

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• You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man.

  Lil B

  Cat, Men, Rapper

  "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU". www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.

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• America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

  Agnes Repplier

  Blessed, Son, America

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• If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Children, Home

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.

  Walter Isaacson

  Girl, Jobs, Son

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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