Adela's Quotes

#1. If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

Lance Reddick

#2. What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation.

Agatha Christie

#3. Here, there, and everywhere-an opinionated riddle.

Mary Downing Hahn

#4. God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#5. Every shuttle mission's been successful.

Christa McAuliffe

#6. Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Charles Kettering

#7. Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#8. Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!

Adela Popescu

#9. The motion picture is the people's Art.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#10. Me, personally, I don't upload video to YouTube.

Chad Hurley

#11. The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#12. What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

John F. Kerry

#13. Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

Marvin Ammori

#14. I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth ... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!

Adela Popescu

#15. Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#16. A great many of us have confused change with progress.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#17. I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#18. ripped. I got a glance at his abs when he picked up the woman's things. Yeah, I looked up his shirt. What of it? Plenty of men have looked up my skirt. Consider it karma.

~Julia

Adela Knight

#19. Death is a door life opens.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#20. Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

Adela Of Normandy

#21. Woman's work as a listener is never done ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#22. Anger flared through him, but anger was unproductive so he twisted it into pragmatism while he searched for a flaw.

Victoria Schwab

#23. It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery ... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public ... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

Adela Popescu

#24. If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

Peter Lynch

#25. Adela you are as smart as a boy." This remark stung, because if it meant that I was as smart as my brothers, I was still destined for idiocy.

Anonymous

#26. For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#27. Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

Adela Popescu

#28. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#29. There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#30. I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#31. If you lick it you own it, Babydoll.

Sai Marie Johnson

#32. I haven't been with anyone since my break-up with Jackass. Yes, Jackass is his name. Officially.

Adela Knight

#33. All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!

Adela Popescu

#34. You are only as good as your people

Adela Masarykova

#35. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#36. The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly ... Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#37. Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#38. My hips don't lie and I don't lie either!

Shakira

#39. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Adela Florence Nicolson

#40. Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

Adela Popescu