Quotes About Adam's Rib

#1. We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

M.R. Mathias

#2. It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

Bertrand Russell

#4. I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.

Alexander Spotswood

#5. Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs.

Marcel Proust

#6. I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now.

Molly Crabapple

#7. I'm not interested in celebrity.

Orlando Bloom

#8. As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam's rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart.

Nadeem Aslam

#9. No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.

Katharine Hepburn

#10. The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

Clive Sinclair

#11. Assistance will come unto you through the Holy Ghost as spiritual guidance. It is a power, beyond your own capability, that a loving Heavenly Father wants you to use consistently for your peace and happiness.

Richard G. Scott

#12. It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. When Adam found his rib was gone
He cursed and sighed and cried and swore
And looked with cold resentment on
The creature God has used it for.

John Hollander

#14. Wake up, buddy. You okay?" "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" Homer's VR came online, smiling. "I guess we got'em." I snorted with relief. "And their little dog, too." Homer steepled his fingers in a properly evil mastermindish pose. "All their base are belong to us.

Dennis E. Taylor

#15. It's what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.

Colleen Hoover

#16. The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

Lois Capps

#17. I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

Ani DiFranco

#18. The future looks a bit bleak to me.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#19. Though I'd proven to be a wretched, foolish woman, I knew deep in my broken heart that God was still just as good and loving as he'd been the moment he plucked a rib from Adam's side and used that bone to give me life.

Kristen Reed

#20. Tone has the living soul.

Shinichi Suzuki

#21. The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.

Matthew Henry

#22. No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#23. Just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed

Marcel Proust

#24. God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Had God pulled me from Adam's rib and placed me naked in the garden, the story would be no different. Let's not blame Eve anymore. If she hadn't eaten the fruit, it would most certainly have been me. I would have eaten it again and again, and then I would have given you a bite.

Amber C. Haines

#26. In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden

John Hegley

#27. God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

Shirley Jump