Adelle Quotes

#1. A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.

Alice Hoffman

#2. By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. Nutrition ... has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly ...

Adelle Davis

#4. We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis

#5. To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

Adelle Davis

#6. Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

Dennis Lehane

#7. As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

Adelle Davis

#8. When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.

Adelle Waldman

#9. The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.

Richard Armitage

#10. Smart people only mated with smart people, class structures would ossify. There'd be a permanent underclass of stupid people.

Adelle Waldman

#11. Human beings need to be needed, and they need to be reminded of this pretty much every day. They need to know that they are helping others, not merely serving themselves.

Patrick Lencioni

#12. Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president.

Ted Cruz

#13. A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Diane Setterfield

#14. Good drivers are people who can put their brains on cruise control.

Adelle Waldman

#15. As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

#16. What began, after a few more minutes, to irritate him was that she didn't even attempt to be engaging - made no effort toward wit or color in her replies. Only an attractive young woman would take for granted a stranger's interest in the minutiae of her life.

Adelle Waldman

#17. Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

Jonathan Swift

#18. I'm sure a lot of it is my fault," he said. He smiled ruefully. "And by a lot, I mean all."
"Ah, the self-deprecating dude routine," Hannah said. " 'What a lovable fuck-up I am.' The annoying thing is that it makes you look good, but it doesn't get me anything.

Adelle Waldman

#19. I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater. ... I have been immoral, drunk, high. I ran with the wicked people for 28 years and I have run with the Jesus people since and the contrast is astounding.

Phil Robertson

#20. There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.

Daniel Goncalves

#21. Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

Dorothy Parker

#22. It was not always unpleasant to deal with a hysterical woman. One feels so thoroughly righteous in comparison.

Adelle Waldman

#23. If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

Adelle Davis

#24. It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

Sai Baba

#25. Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Mae West

#26. He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.

Adelle Waldman

#27. Nate hated, really hated, being told he thought too much. Jason wasn't the only one who said it: hippie-dippie types who romanticize the natural and the "intuitive" also prefer feeling to thought. But not thinking was a way of giving oneself license to be a dick.

Adelle Waldman

#28. The belief that success was something that just happened to you, that you just did your thing, and if you were deserving, it was bestowed by the same invisible hand that ensured that the deli would have milk to drink and sandwiches to buy.

Adelle Waldman

#29. The number of hours the average American watches TV has remained steady, at about four and a half hours a day, every day (by age sixty-five, a person will have spent twelve uninterrupted years in front of the TV).

Neil Postman

#30. The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

Adelle Davis

#31. In a certain sense, it's harder for men to say no to sex than it is for women. When a woman says no, nobody's feelings are hurt. Men expect to be shot down. But when a man says no, the woman feels as if he's just said she's fat and undesirable. That makes him feel like a jerk.

Adelle Waldman

#32. If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

Adelle Waldman

#33. Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

Adelle Davis

#34. Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

Joss Whedon

#35. I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

Louis C.K.

#36. People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart
but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.

Adelle Waldman

#37. At that moment in her life, Elisa was, he realized, almost pathologically attracted not to status or money or good looks but to literary and intellectual potential.

Adelle Waldman

#38. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

#39. I feel like one of the three bears right now. Goldilocks, is that you sleeping in my bed?

Melissa Cutler