Adages List Quotes

#1. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

#2. When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

George Osborne

#3. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#4. Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

Susanna Wesley

#5. In this case, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's orders were being carried out - "anything that flies on anything that moves," an open call for genocide that is rare in the historical record.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Those million mistakes you did may not make you cry, but the ones you dint try might make you to.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#7. Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us

Debbie Macomber

#8. I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?

Jackie Kay

#9. He smiled his barbarian's smile. "Keep looking at me like that, Emmie love, and I will be bothering you again in a trice.

Grace Burrowes

#10. A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Ken Follett

#11. Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

Magnus Carlsen

#12. Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. "Impudent," she said. "It's sweet on you.

Jim Butcher

#13. The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#14. How many adorn their temples, and decorate their priests - but refuse to obey the Word of the Lord!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. In mathematics, there's a name for this short-term greed, the process of always choosing the option that gives you instant gratification. It's called the "greedy algorithm," and following it almost always leads to a plateau.

Bob Sullivan