Quotes About Adela

#1. Adela you are as smart as a boy." This remark stung, because if it meant that I was as smart as my brothers, I was still destined for idiocy.

Anonymous

#2. What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation.

Agatha Christie

#3. I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

Eartha Kitt

#4. X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

Sam Kean

#5. For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#6. Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

Adela Popescu

#7. It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

Emily Giffin

#8. I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Oren Peli

#9. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#10. Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

Karl Jaspers

#11. Love is a strange dark magic.

Atticus

#12. There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#13. I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#14. I haven't been with anyone since my break-up with Jackass. Yes, Jackass is his name. Officially.

Adela Knight

#15. All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!

Adela Popescu

#16. You are only as good as your people

Adela Masarykova

#17. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#18. The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly ... Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#19. Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#20. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Adela Florence Nicolson

#21. Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

Adela Popescu

#22. Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#23. God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#24. It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

M. Stanton Evans

#25. I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.

Warren Austin

#26. Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#27. Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!

Adela Popescu

#28. The motion picture is the people's Art.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#29. If you lead a team, start asking questions and really listening. Start valuing the contributions of your teammates ahead of your own. And remember that when the best idea wins, so does the entire team.

John C. Maxwell

#30. The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#31. I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth ... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!

Adela Popescu

#32. It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery ... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public ... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

Adela Popescu

#33. A great many of us have confused change with progress.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#34. I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#35. You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!

Frederick Lenz

#36. I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.

Demi Lovato

#37. There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

#38. ripped. I got a glance at his abs when he picked up the woman's things. Yeah, I looked up his shirt. What of it? Plenty of men have looked up my skirt. Consider it karma.

~Julia

Adela Knight

#39. Death is a door life opens.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#40. Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

Adela Of Normandy

#41. Woman's work as a listener is never done ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

Adela Rogers St. Johns