Time Before Adam Quotes

#1. That prevailed before his time. National wealth was measured in terms of a country's stock

Adam Smith

#2. Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#3. How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.

James Mason

#4. Give me the goddamn names, Grace," Lucas said. "C'mon. Please. Talk to me. Save yourself." "Fuck you." - FORD CAME BACK, looked at Lucas, asked, "Get a name?" "Not unless it's 'Fuck you,'" Lucas said.

John Sandford

#5. A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

Adam Davidson

#6. What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Anne Bronte

#7. It's okay, Jasper. I, above all, know what you are feeling now. But this will be different. We're stronger now. We will find her. Adam gave him a rough hug before he left the shop. The sound of a car outside signaled the arrival of his brothers. Time to kick ass and find his mate.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#8. Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Every sacred travel transforms the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

#11. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

Gilda Radner

#12. Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

Morris Berman

#13. In the end, it's not about failure, it's about how much you love what you do.

Vera Wang

#14. To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Mark Nepo

#15. Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

Bob Kerrey

#16. Once again, she asked me what I meant. And again, my heart was in my words, but the explanation made no sense. Typical me.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Was I wearing my 'I'm done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me' T-shirt?

Rachel Vincent

#18. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Nicholas Butler