Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he alrea...
HENRY ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY ADAMS The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ...
HENRY ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
HENRY ADAMS Intimates are predestined
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY ADAMS In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined...
HENRY ADAMS You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a stea...
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of fact...
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of in...
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...
HENRY ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, whereve...
HENRY ADAMS Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent exci...
HENRY ADAMS A friend in power is a friend lost.
HENRY ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
HENRY ADAMS Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more a...
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
HENRY ADAMS Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
HENRY ADAMS No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
HENRY ADAMS In the one branch he most needed
HENRY ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY ADAMS They know enough who know how to learn.
HENRY ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
HENRY ADAMS The proper study of mankind is woman.
HENRY ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury.
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of iner...
HENRY ADAMS Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
HENRY ADAMS As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly de...
HENRY ADAMS The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite i...
HENRY ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev...
HENRY ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends b...
HENRY ADAMS Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
HENRY ADAMS Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
HENRY ADAMS It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
HENRY ADAMS He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
HENRY ADAMS The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset D...
HENRY ADAMS Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, p...
HENRY ADAMS Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
HENRY ADAMS Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide b...
HENRY ADAMS All experience is an arch, to build upon.
HENRY ADAMS Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS Friends are born, not made.
HENRY ADAMS These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own i...
HENRY ADAMS There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
HENRY ADAMS American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
HENRY ADAMS The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a cou...
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of i...
HENRY ADAMS No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about hi...
HENRY ADAMS I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not ...
HENRY ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
HENRY ADAMS American society is sort of a flat fresh water pond, which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity.
HENRY ADAMS Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousn...
HENRY ADAMS A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. ...
HENRY ADAMS The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taugh...
HENRY ADAMS Intimates are predestined.
HENRY ADAMS For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...
HENRY ADAMS A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in t...
HENRY ADAMS I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a wo...
HENRY ADAMS the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the...
HENRY ADAMS Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden...
HENRY ADAMS No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for ...
HENRY ADAMS The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a ...
HENRY ADAMS I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined t...
HENRY ADAMS This is way beyond expectations. We've got the second best golfer in the state at Aspen High School,...
HENRY ADAMS I was interested in politics, thought I had good speaking abilities. I talked with Mr. Oliver about ...
HENRY ADAMS Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
HENRY ADAMS Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how thei...
HENRY ADAMS The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought i...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of iner...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
HENRY B. ADAMS No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of Octob...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of ine...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends b...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends b...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY B. ADAMS He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
HENRY B. ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, whereve...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos results when the world changes faster than people
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It is always good men who do the most harm in the world
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Friends are born, not made.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the seaso...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide b...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or le...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Intimates are predestined
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about ...
YOLANDA ADAMS Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
YOLANDA ADAMS I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly...
YOLANDA ADAMS I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
YOLANDA ADAMS All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of G...
YOLANDA ADAMS The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I wou...
YOLANDA ADAMS Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
YOLANDA ADAMS Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do some...
YOLANDA ADAMS I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a ...
YOLANDA ADAMS The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep...
YOLANDA ADAMS Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anythi...
YOLANDA ADAMS Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University o...
YOLANDA ADAMS You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something differ...
YOLANDA ADAMS The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really...
YOLANDA ADAMS Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information a...
YOLANDA ADAMS I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop...
YOLANDA ADAMS God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
YOLANDA ADAMS My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks i...
YOLANDA ADAMS As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as ...
YOLANDA ADAMS You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband o...
YOLANDA ADAMS People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whateve...
YOLANDA ADAMS There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a soun...
YOLANDA ADAMS Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a...
YOLANDA ADAMS I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that yo...
YOLANDA ADAMS It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
JACK ADAMS We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Ja...
JACK ADAMS We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close t...
JACK ADAMS The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
JACK ADAMS Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert ...
JACK ADAMS My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that...
JACK ADAMS My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
JACK ADAMS I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
JACK ADAMS I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
JACK ADAMS Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
JACK ADAMS Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at he...
JACK ADAMS Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
JACK ADAMS The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbe...
JACK ADAMS In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
JACK ADAMS A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
JACK ADAMS I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
JACK ADAMS On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, a...
JACK ADAMS If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one...
JACK ADAMS After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
JACK ADAMS It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai...
GERRY ADAMS I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS