Henry Adams Quotes

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918

Topics

BestBrokenNervousMatterRenewal

When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

Meg Wolitzer

GoodBookYouOutNormalLike

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

John Hickenlooper

ColoradoCompanyEveryoneOutHere

I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.

Michael Douglas

AgeManThinkCareYouFind

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison

LifeLanguageDieMeaningMeasure

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

River Phoenix

TruthLieYouI CanTryPsychology

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

GovernmentPeopleDemocracyWant

Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.

Martine Syms

LiveScienceMeRandomPlacePerson

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

Mo Ibrahim

BusinessViewPlaceAfricaDifficult

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

Luke Macfarlane

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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

Jojo Moyes

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When Ralf Rangnick was in charge, you could see he was out to force a pressing game.

Dietmar Hopp

GameYouSeeOutForceCharge

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