Adams Quotes

Abigail Smith Adams - “I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries 'Give, give!'”

Abigail Smith Adams - “We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

Abigail Smith Adams - “History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.”

Abigail Smith Adams - “If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”

Abigail Smith Adams - “These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.”

Abigail Smith Adams - “I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”

Abigail Smith Adams - “Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”

Abigail Smith Adams - “Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

Abigail Smith Adams - “If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”

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Abigail Smith Adams - “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And in the new code of laws, which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.... If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

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Abigail Smith Adams - “I can not say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to Men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over Wives.”

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Ansel Adams - “You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

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Ansel Adams - “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”

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Ansel Adams - “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

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Ansel Adams - “Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

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Ansel Adams - “There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.”

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Ansel Adams - “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

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Ansel Adams - “In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular ... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.”

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Ansel Adams - “The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.”

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Ansel Adams - “The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.”

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Ansel Adams - “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

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Ansel Adams - “Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”

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Barbara Adams - “If it helps to make people think a little bit more what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing this uniform. After being rejected for wearing her Star Fleet uniform to court, 1996”

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Brooks Adams - “The law is the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.”

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Charles Francis Adams - “The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.”

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