Quotes of Richard Adams - somelinesforyou

“ A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. ”

- Richard Adams

“ My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. ”

- Richard Adams

“ Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later askperhaps more than oncewhere the dead person is and when he is coming back. ”

- Richard Adams

“ There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be. ”

- Richard Adams

“ Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. ”

- Richard Adams

“ This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to reassert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope. ”

- Richard Adams

“ Bargains, bargains, Elahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be. ”

- Richard Adams

“ Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea. ”

- Richard Adams

“ You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple. ”

- Richard Adams

“ We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be. ”

- Richard Adams

“ My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. ”

- Richard Adams

“ They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. ”

- Richard Adams

“ I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. ”

- Richard Adams

“ We can show that booking online frequently generates a 15 percent saving on ticket prices, and savings in travel management fees of approximately 50 percent. ”

- Richard Adams

“ You cannot rule the world El-ahrairah, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you - digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning… ”

- Richard Adams

“ I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. ”

- Richard Adams

“ It was a big deal. There was a lot of criticism leveled her way, and she handled it like the outstanding person she was and is to this day. ”

- Richard Adams

“ I just want to encourage them,... Coming from a black environment, we don't like to give up our organs. ”

- Richard Adams

“ You cannot rule the world El-ahrairah, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you - digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning… ”

- Richard Adams

“ You cannot rule the world El-ahrairah, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you - digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning… ”

- Richard Adams

“ A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. ”

- Richard Adams

“ We can show that booking online frequently generates a 15 percent saving on ticket prices, and savings in travel management fees of approximately 50 percent. ”

- Richard Adams

“ We can show that booking online frequently generates a 15 percent saving on ticket prices, and savings in travel management fees of approximately 50 percent. ”

- Richard Adams

“ We can show that booking online frequently generates a 15 percent saving on ticket prices, and savings in travel management fees of approximately 50 percent. ”

- Richard Adams

“ They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. ”

- Richard Adams

“ A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. ”

- Richard Adams

“ The primroses were over. ”

- Richard Adams

“ They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. ”

- Richard Adams

“ It was a big deal. There was a lot of criticism leveled her way, and she handled it like the outstanding person she was and is to this day. ”

- Richard Adams

“ We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be. ”

- Richard Adams
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