Top 100 Adair Quotes
#1. His phone rang again, and he turned it on speaker. "Adair residence - "
"Shut up, Cabe." Silas's voice filled the car. "Your Lexus isn't a residence, and I know you're driving, because I'm watching your GPS dot move down the road.
Jane Washington
#2. Let's go again to Niag'ra,
This time we'll look at the Fall.
Let's leave our hut, Dear,
Get out of our rut, Dear,
Let's get away from it all.
Tom Adair
#3. We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
Gilbert Adair
#4. We probably won't live long enough to run out of food, or electricity, or anything important." "Oh, you'll live," Murphy said. "I have no doubt." "Really?" Jerome asked, real curiosity in his voice. "What makes you think I'll last?" "Because you're a pussy!
Bobby Adair
#5. People are good and people are bad, sometimes one right after the other, sometimes simultaneously. Sometimes,
Bobby Adair
#6. But for the absence of Satan, the world looked like Hell.
Bobby Adair
#8. If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.
Adair Turner
#9. I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas,
Red Adair
#11. The hot, stagnant air, only marginally cooler without the sun's heat, draped us in its sticky blanket.
Bobby Adair
#12. understand, I will forbid it. This is not a decision for the family to make. It is a medical decision." "You forbid it?" Najid laughed. "You are mistaken,
Bobby Adair
#13. I was a wicked pirate assassin on my way to kill. Arrgh!
Bobby Adair
#14. You skin is so soft. Smells like ... "
She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. "Sheer, unadulterated fear?
Cherry Adair
#15. The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
Adair Turner
#16. I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
Daniel Adair
#17. We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
Adair Turner
#18. There is no state of final fulfillment. Each change opens new doors and ushers in new possibilities.
Margo Adair
#19. Whenever you fire a gun, it's like ringing a bell for Pavlov's dog.
Bobby Adair
#20. My hands felt electrically charged. My blood was ready to burst from my veins and my heart was beating a manic rhythm. I was frightened out of my wits but I was catching a familiar, addictive adrenaline wave. I was ready to taunt the reaper.
Bobby Adair
#21. Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.
Daniel Adair
#22. Truth will find me I have no fear...'
WISH - Dreams Beginning
Deby Adair
#23. My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant
Gilbert Adair
#24. Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend.
Bobby Adair
#25. The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
Gilbert Adair
#26. He was dead. I was fixated on the horrid bite wound on my left forearm. For a long time I watched, hypnotized, as the blood oozed and dripped.
Bobby Adair
#27. The darkest parts of my soul were thriving in the chaos of a world turned murderous black, and bereft of dreams. I was a downcast demigod, slayer of monsters. I bore the machete that drained their veins, stole their breath, and cut the life from their hearts.
Bobby Adair
#28. How will humanity react when it realizes that it has survived an extinction event?
Bobby Adair
#29. Perhaps one day they will add about you as their leader, "And you made a difference" That is the true reward of Leadership
John Adair
#30. Did you party too much and drop out?" "No, I got a philosophy degree.
Bobby Adair
#31. If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs
Red Adair
#32. They had a smokehouse next to the pigpen - kind of morbid for the pigs. The
Bobby Adair
#33. Communication is the sister of leadership
John Adair
#34. The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I
Bobby Adair
#35. You don't know anything about fear and hate," he told me. "Fear and hate aren't rational emotions, and they damn sure don't depend on the existence of valid reasons. People hate because they're afraid. People are afraid because they don't understand.
Bobby Adair
#36. gazed blankly at nothing in particular. I knew that look. They were the Russells of the group.
Bobby Adair
#37. You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me?
-"You're a strange man."
I'm your strange man.
Cherry Adair
#38. We were all commuters, traveling, serially to the same unsatisfying future, the same dead end.
Bobby Adair
#39. Sure, shit happens we can't control, but that's exactly what it is: shit you can't control. You can't control what it is, or sometimes what it does to you. But like I've told you before, you can control how you feel about it, how you deal with it.
Bobby Adair
#40. In fact, I suspect they prefer flawed certainty to faultless ambivalence.
Bobby Adair
#41. It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Red Adair
#43. If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair
#44. Fort Hood had been a stockpile of the Army's tried and true tools for killing folks on an industrial scale, a
Bobby Adair
#45. Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.
Cherry Adair
#46. Instinctively, a common feeling exists that "United we stand, divided we fall", that good relationship, desirable in themselves, are also an essential means towards the shared end.
John Adair
#47. surrender to the strident sunshine, it
Bobby Adair
#48. Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
Red Adair
#49. not because they are based on any kind of fact. I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren't true fall apart under examination.
Bobby Adair
#50. systematically looking at each of the fly-covered tattoos on one of the walls.
Bobby Adair
#51. Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter
Cherry Adair
#52. The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.
Red Adair
#53. his smile was alone on his face. His eyes were sad and angry.
Bobby Adair
#54. People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs
John Adair
#55. Hell, I'm looking at tattoo skins from dead people that might be my sister's. How fucked up is that?
Bobby Adair
#56. You move on, or you die. That's the way it is now." "Smile and get over it. Is
Bobby Adair
#57. History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.
Bobby Adair
#58. I often got, floating on the ocean at night, that we were nothing but a minuscule piece of flotsam or perhaps plankton drifting through space itself. I say it was an impression, but of course it's true.
James Adair
#59. Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.
Bobby Adair
#60. Humble people know their limitations: they know what they know, and they know what they do not know; they know what they can do or be, and they know what they cannot do or be
John Adair
#61. I thought you were dead." "So did I. Considering I was up against three soldiers, I did pretty damn well," he mused. She
Bobby Adair
#62. Everybody knows what the dinner bell sounds like.
Bobby Adair
#63. Effective leaders treat individuals differently but equally
John Adair
#64. In New York
whose subway trains in particular have been 'tattooed' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame
not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the 'haves.
Gilbert Adair
#65. I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
Red Adair
#66. I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.
Red Adair
#67. every time a reader leaves a book review, a crippled monkey gets a free banana. I
Bobby Adair
#68. The upper middle-class cracker neighborhood ignored me, focused instead on its own pockets of human chaos. Four
Bobby Adair
#69. In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.
Adair Turner
#70. how you would feel if your old girlfriend showed up and she had the IQ of a frog. You'd
Bobby Adair
#71. There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.
John Adair
#72. With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
Red Adair
#73. Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.
John Adair
#75. Call it eternal optimism or romantic rebellion, but one of these days karma would stop flipping her the bird and pay it forward.
Marina Adair
#76. Dan gave chase with his big, blue-collar hands grasping at my shirttail.
Bobby Adair
#77. The folks in this small town had made their last stand at the Piggly Wiggly.
Bobby Adair
#78. Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.
Red Adair
#79. I've done made a deal with the devil,
Red Adair
#80. The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.
Bobby Adair
#81. Praise and recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the human spirit
John Adair
#82. fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.
Bobby Adair
#83. In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.
Adair Turner
#84. reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating irrationality from unreasonable people.
Bobby Adair
#85. Bringing Gabe and his family back just in time for little Holly to see a naked statue of her father sounds like a complication Abby would want to avoid.
Marina Adair
#86. I wanted so badly to kick in his perfectly white, good dental plan teeth.
Bobby Adair
#87. Man, I'm just trying to get you lighten up a bit." "Murphy, we're looking at a thousand rotting corpses. Lighten up?" "Life is what you make it, man.
Bobby Adair
#88. He should've let her drown.
Tally Cruise had the most God-awful voice Michael had ever heard, and he'd heard some doozies in Asian karaoke bars. Fortunately the violence of the storm, and the thunder of the waves, drowned out most of it.
Cherry Adair
#89. To choose to live, to make that choice to fight for life every day, had to be a choice to accept all the sorrows of all of my tomorrows. But if that choice to live was to be bearable at all, I needed to let loose my embrace of the pain, both yesterday's and tomorrow's.
Bobby Adair
#90. Our belief systems are the glasses through which we each view the world and anticipate what is likely to unfold. Our behavior is always loyal with our beliefs.
Margo Adair
#91. Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
Red Adair
#92. Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.
Margo Adair
#93. A person is nothing if not the product of the lies he believes about himself.
Bobby Adair
#95. Oft times, anger was all I had, my sole defining characteristic. It clung to me like an insecure girlfriend, and I put as little effort into sloughing it off.
Bobby Adair
#96. I knew what was wrong. The virus was debilitating my coordination and I just didn't want to accept it. I
Bobby Adair
#97. The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.
Adair Turner
#99. Did you see what happened?"
"Hard to miss," he said dryly. "Your boat went kaplooie."
Tally blinked at his easy dismissal of two lives and a million-dollar boat. "Is that the technical term for it?
Cherry Adair
#100. The price of excellence in teamwork is eternal vigilance
John Adair
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