Adherent Quotes

#1. He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes - according to the fashion - but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans

Leo Tolstoy

#2. [I am a humble adherent of] ... Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

Ernest Gellner

#3. For thirty-six of the forty years between 1800 and 1840, either Jefferson or a self-described adherent of his served as president of the United States: James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren.32 (John Quincy Adams, a one-term president, was the single exception.)

Jon Meacham

#4. There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

Desmond Tutu

#5. In the beginning, Orion was not considered to be a hunter but as the heretic cult grew, its adherent dared to war the upper heavens and were set off on a quest for hunting the lion (i.e., Sphinx) in its own dwelling. This is literally what 'Orion' the word means, the 'dwelling of the lion'.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#6. Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later.

Shannon McKenna

#7. [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.

Martin Schulz

#8. Adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

#10. I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

Stephen Colbert

#11. The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men.

Aleister Crowley

#12. The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

Vladimir Lenin

#13. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Adherent:
Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Idries Shah

#14. Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths

Haruki Murakami

#15. Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.

Sanjo Jendayi

#16. Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

Lisa See

#17. All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

Ken Livingstone

#18. We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

David Levithan

#19. I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anais Nin

#20. Love and lust are as different from each other as red wine and blue cheese, but because they can also complement one another splendidly, they get conflated with amazing, dumbfounding regularity.

Christopher Ryan

#21. In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Tim Wise

#22. You women, always trying to rush straight to sex. Whatever happened to romance?

Eve Dangerfield

#23. When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Blake Shelton

#24. Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce