Adam Smiths Quotes & Sayings

When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career. — Jamie Dornan

I understand the military. I know the military. — Donald Trump

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up. — Anthony Foxx

I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that ... I can bring a constructive mood to the table. — Roberto Azevedo

A lady?' Jem raised his head. His face as scarlet. 'After all those things she said about you, a lady?'
'She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different than mine, maybe ... son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her-I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see through it no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.' (p.112) — Harper Lee

The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul. — Charles Dudley Warner

One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life. — Annia Ciezadlo

Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change. — Patricia Briggs

To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain — Robin Hobb

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. — Philip Hone

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture. — Dev Patel

Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts. — Alexander Pushkin