Sir Adrian Cadbury Quotes

#1. There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Wallace Stegner

#2. Luz's father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#3. 'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

Spark Matsunaga

#4. The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.

Michelle Hodkin

#5. Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Annie Proulx

#6. The doc showed no hint he had trouble taking lives.

Ellen Connor

#7. Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

William S. Burroughs

#8. And now, she is here with me.. Strange... how one person can make life feel so new.

Jeff Loveness

#9. You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

Calvin Coolidge

#10. Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.

Edward Gibbon

#11. I wish people could read my thoughts instead of having to put them into words.

Tina J. Richardson

#12. There is a cry out there, someone cries out for attention, for someone to listen. Just to listen.

Euginia Herlihy

#13. Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.

Gilles Dauve

#14. I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Mary Griffith