Henry Adams Quotes

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodFaithIntelligenceManDoubts

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

Joanna Southcott

MyselfPenSatanBearRageOut

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Jim Sensenbrenner

TodayProblemPrincipalEconomyOur

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

Andrew Solomon

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I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

John Cassavetes

LoveMindInterestedLackStops

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

Anatoly Rybakov

BookYouProfessionalSayWillWay

Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.

Maz Jobrani

LifeMotherTimeAirplaneSaying

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

Sturgill Simpson

EverythingWhereJustRecordsKnew

My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.

Mohit Chauhan

ParentsMeSingingYoungTellBeen

Gorgeous exfoliants are expensive.

Jonathan Van Ness

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I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

Chris Pine

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I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

Bradley Wiggins

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When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.

Susanna Phillips

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