Letters To John Adams Quotes

#1. That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

Larry Wall

#2. Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

John Adams

#3. The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

John Adams

#4. In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Jimmy Hoffa

#5. This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Bill Gates

#6. In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.

W. H. Auden

#7. He who makes no mistakes never makes anything.

-- English Proverb

Andrew Szlachetko

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Philippe De Vosjoli

#9. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

Suetonius

#11. Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.

John Quincy Adams