Adlon Daughters Quotes & Sayings

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave. — Mary Renault

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement. — Robert Hugh Benson

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence. — Alan Watts

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it. — Vernon Howard

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust. — Rose George

How could you let him do this? (Shahara)
I know you're not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn't raise the embryo. You did. It's what you get for teaching him things like honor, love, courage, and loyalty. If you'd left him a scared little snot-nose, he'd still be living in your basement. (Vik) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times! — Booth Tarkington

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials. — Anni Albers

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world. — Michael Mandelbaum

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. — M. Scott Peck

I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite' - that movie was funny. — Luke Benward