Adam Quotes

I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

I used to eat a whole chicken every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.

Sometimes, you just have to let go... and embrace what you've become.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

I wanted to look different because I felt different

Fame is a very strange animal.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart

By GIVING to others, instead of GETTING, we can still find we have everything we need in Christ.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.