Adjured Quotes & Sayings

Being told that something was going to happen never prepared you for the actuality of the event itself. — Robert Storey

The national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there is no such common interest; nor can it be defined as the life, liberty, and well-being of the citizens, because they are continually being adjured to sacrifice their well-being, their liberty, and their lives to the national interest. In the end a study of modern history leads to the conclusion that the national interest of every State consists in its capacity to make war. — Simone Weil

I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion's always there, and that's what's been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can't do it. You can't have a normal life and pursue this dream. — Paul Eenhoorn

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God. — Nirmala Srivastava

Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa ... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty ... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies ... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die ... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained. — St. George Tucker

Jim Cummings, Whoopie Goldberg & Cheech Marin make up this famous Disney threesome. — Alex Trebek

Many argue that the twentieth century's council estates have had disastrous social consequences. People in poverty feel, and indeed actually grow, poorer if forced to live in a sink estate, while the middle classes flee to their own leafy ghettoes outside city centres. A successful 'place' mixes up the different groups in society, forcing them to mingle and to look out for each other. — Lucy Worsley

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. — Christina Rossetti

You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away — Nina LaCour

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand. — Donald Cargill

Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. I like your dolphin. — Neal Shusterman

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.
But how many people have verified that physically possible? — Idries Shah

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree — Martin Luther King Jr.