Quotes of Henry Brooks Adams

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

- Henry Brooks Adams

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“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”

- Erich Segal

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ I miss everything about you Can’t believe that I still want you And after all the things we’ve been through. ”

- Colbie Caillat

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Keep in mind that three months worth of sowing equals three months of reaping at harvest, Remember not to stop sowing your fields in all ways in life after the first three months as its easy to feel good and live off of the fields already sowed but like a meat grinder the stock will eventually run out ”

- James D Wilson

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy