Quotes About Adah

#1. Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me. If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times".

Anonymous

#2. Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?

Buchi Emecheta

#3. She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an arresting way of looking pleased at Adah's achievements.

Buchi Emecheta

#4. we're all in the business of selling ideas to the masses, and we all think our ideas are the ones to save the world,

Oliver Bowden

#5. She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.

Henry Miller

#6. Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

Adah Isaacs Menken

#8. Be yourself ... And shoot for the stars. Obviously dreams really do come true.

Laura Osnes

#9. 'Dark Circles' is a great relationship/character piece and also a horror film. It tinkered with the genre, which I loved. I was sick of seeing the same thing, sick of people just trying to get a movie made.

Johnathon Schaech

#10. Speaking for George Will, on whose thinking I am world's foremost authority, I say: not necessarily. The heavy hitters do have heavy responsibilities.

George F. Will

#11. There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Adah Isaacs Menken

#12. Our focus must always be on building people up.

Dan Davis

#13. I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

Jane Bowles

#14. The warmth of his body shouldn't have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

Patricia Briggs

#15. The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Mark Twain

#16. If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen

#17. When the spirit passed through him he groaned, throwing body and soul into his weekly purge. The "Amen enema", as I call it. My palindrome for the Reverend.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#19. Max ran his fingers across his temple as he tugged his hair away from his bottomless, green eyes. I was so caught in his web. He could devour me and there was nothing I would do to stop him. I couldn't flutter free or escape the trance he had over me.

Gretchen De La O

#20. There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

Adah Isaacs Menken

#21. Yeah I'm in that Tonka color of Willy Wonka

Nicki Minaj

#22. Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

Adah Isaacs Menken