A Quotes
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“Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.”
Source: If I Stay
“Adam leaned down and placed his lips next to her ear. He blew gently on it before he spoke. Mona leaned even closer into him as she listened intently to his words.
"Desdemona."
She moaned at the sound of her name on his lips.
"I need to tell you something." His words were accompanied by warm air caressing her skin.
"Before my time is done, I will watch the light fade from your eyes as you are sent to the hell you so deserve." Though his words promised destruction, the cadence of his voice still held her in a seductive rapture.”
Source: Beyond the Veil
“Adam Lee: has recolectado los fragmentos de mi corazón roto y les has dado brillo a cada uno. Y a pesar de que quedan fisuras, esas fisuras son las carreteras por las que podemos transitar tomados de la mano.
Eres la esperanza hecha realidad.
Y yo jamás abandono mis esperanzas.”
Source: Cartas por el cielo
“Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.”
“Adam lifted his hands and tried to gently capture the butterfly, but it floated away on the breeze. He trailed the creature along the streets, tripping over shop signs and uneven paving stones. He jostled and shoved and pushed through crowds. He pursued it past the Opera House and the deserted open
market.
It was ethereal.”
Source: The Snow Queen
“Adam lifted his hands and tried to gently capture the butterfly, but it floated away on the breeze. He trailed the creature along the streets, tripping over shop signs and uneven paving stones. He jostled and shoved and pushed through crowds. He pursued it past the Opera House and the deserted open
market.
― Suzy Davies, The Snow Queen”
Source: The Snow Queen
“Adam looked up with sick weariness. His lips parted and failed and tried again. Then his lungs filled. He expelled the air and his lips combed the rushing sigh. His whispered word seemed to hang in the air:
"Timshel!"
His eyes closed and he slept.”
“Adam ” Lori called loudly enough for me to hear her but not so loud that her voice would carry up to my mom in the marina office- or to her dad who might be listening from their screened porch facing the water.
“I came over to get some tips from the boys about teaching Tammy and Rachel to board. Of course I did not come over here to see you. How could you think such a thing That would be disobedient.”
I held up the wax.
“For my own disobedience I have to buff the boat. Then I’m going for a jog.”
She tilted her head. Probably her eyes widened but I couldn’t see them behind her sunglasses. I hated not being able to see her eyes.
She asked “In this heat?”
I didn’t mind jogging in the heat. The heat was a big friendly animal that liked to wrestle and only occasionally sat on me until I lost my breath. Anyway she was missing the point.
I repeated carefully ”I am GOING for a JOG.”
“I HEARD you the FIRST time ” she said. “It’s late afternoon in the middle of June. It’s ninety-five degrees out here.”
“He means he’s GOING for a JOG” Rachel and Tammy said at the same time.
“He’s GOING for a JOG.”
Lori still didn’t get it. Normally her blondeness was one of the things I loved about her. At the moment not so much.
Exasperated Cameron told her “Adam wants you to go for a jog too.”
She said “Oh ”
“If you two airheads have to hook up secretly for very long ” Sean said “you’re not going to make it.”
Source: Endless Summer
“Adam (man) could not rid himself of his freedom, nor escape from the drama, to be as innocent as an animal or an angel. He has to choose, to use his freedom, to be good and evil; in one word, to be man. This ability to choose, regardless of result, is the highest form of existence possible in the universe.”
Source: Islam between East and West
“Adam Mengden, a highly skilled Software Engineer from Dallas, thrives on crafting cutting-edge solutions.”
“Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.”
“Adam no podía entender cómo la vida podía resultar tan fácil para alguien cuando vivir era lo más complicado a lo que él se había tenido que enfrentar.”
Source: April, Adam y la trayectoria de los planetas
“Adam offered a car key. 'Take my little red Honda. It's parked out front. When you finish with it, just tell it to go home. Don't be deceived by its modest appearance. It's fully shielded and equipped with enough gadgetry to tempt the ghost of James Bond.'
'Can it makes a vente triple-shot no-foam latte?'
'In a New York minute.'
Ef took the key, kissed it, and headed for the front door.”
“Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan’s lack of heat tolerance. “I didn’t say anything.” “Whatever, man,” Ronan replied. “I know that face. You were born in hell, you’re used to it.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Adam: "Perhaps you should get a real job and become a useful member of society."
Gordon: "Perhaps you should shove a pipe up your ass and die of lead poisoning.”
Source: After Midnight
“Adam pressed his hand to his face. Sighed. "Right. It's just that… He died. And I'm so freaking pissed off, I swear I'd punch him in the face if he were standing right here.”
Source: One Moment
“Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read.”
“Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.”
“Adam rozlišoval skoré a neskoré dni v týždni. Skoré sú vlastne len dva, pondelok a utorok, pričom druhý akoby bol skorý iba ráno, do dvanástej hodiny, potom je už veľmi blízko streda. Niekedy je bližšie, inokedy ďalej, no stáva sa, že už v pondelok večer vidí, ako utorok prefičí do stredy, čo je iba zdanlivo stred týždňa, príliš skorý a zdanlivý stred.
Tým naozajstným stredom je až štvrtok s tromi dňami pred ním a s rovnakým počtom za ním, aspoň geometricky, pretože opticky je skôr prvým skorším dňom na konci týždňa, čo nie je nič iné ako prvý neskorý deň toho istého týždňa.
Potom sa ukáže piatok, ktorý je v pondelok ráno v takej diaľke, až sa zdá, že za ním nemôžu byť ďalšie dni: sobota a nedeľa. Akoby tam boli iba zo zvyku, akoby tým koncom týždňa bol naozaj piatok. Z tohto pohľadu sa potom sobota a nedeľa javia ako prvé skoré dni ďalšieho týždňa, čím sa z pondelka a utorka stávajú akési čudné dni, topiace sa v rozpakoch, ba možno aj v plači, lebo nevedia, kde sú: začiatok im niekto ukradol a koniec je ďaleko.”
“Adam's hand glided over her bare elbow. The touch was a whisper in a language she didn't speak very well.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret laboratory”
Source: Generation Dead
“Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter.”
Source: If I Stay
“Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"
Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Adam said, “Just thinking.”
And he was thinking with amazement, Why, I’m not afraid of my brother! I used to be scared to death of him, and I’m not any more. Wonder why not? Could it be the army? Or the chain gang? Could it be Father’s death? Maybe—but I don’t understand it.
With the lack of fear, he knew he could say anything he wanted to, whereas before he had picked over his words to avoid trouble. It was a good feeling he had, almost as though he himself had been dead and resurrected.”
Source: East of Eden
“Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.”
“Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.”
“Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water. Now and then his mind fought its way upward, and when the light broke in it brought him only a sickness of the mind, and he retired into the grayness again.”
Source: East of Eden
“Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.”
Source: The Raven King
“Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.”
“Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.”
Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography
“Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.”
“Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose in England, one landowner got most of the land and other people would have nothing to live on. He says it wouldn't matter much, because the rich land owner, by virtue of his sympathy for other people would distribute resources among them, so that by an invisible hand, we would end up with a pretty egalitarian society. That is his conception of human nature.”
“Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.”
“Adam Smith's "Man of Systems" was, in other terms, a way of describing sadism in its original definition as practiced by the Marquis de Sade: a master manipulator lusting to play other humans like a fiddle.”
“Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.”
“Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.”
“Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.”
Source: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
“Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.”
“Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.”
“Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.”
“Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit.”
Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common good. That's often true, but as Darwin recognized clearly, many traits that serve the interests of individual animals make life more difficult for larger groups.”
“Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.”
“Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.”
Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
“Adam spoke up, voice half-muffled from the mud. “I made a deal with you, Cabeswater. I’m your hands and your eyes. What do you think I’ll see if he dies?”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“Adam stared down at me, his expression thunderous. “It was you. I know it was you.”
My head was rocking side to side before I could stop it. “No.” I wrenched my hand free of his. “You’re wrong.”
“I’m not!” Anger blazed hot behind his eyes as they burned into me. “Look at me, Kia! Look me in the eye and tell me you’re not her.”
Source: Finding Kia
“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”
“Adam swore harshly. "New werewolves are dangerous, woman. Especially when they are cold and hungry." He looked at Mac, and his voice changed completely, the heat and anger gone, "Mercy, come here." I didn't look down to see what he'd noticed in Mac's face. I took a step, but Mac was wrapped around my left leg. I stopped before I fell. "Uhm. I'm a little stuck for the moment.”
Source: The Mercy Thompson Collection
“Adam the while Waiting desirous her return, had wove Of choicest flowers a garland, to adorn Her tresses, and her rural labours crown As reapers oft are wont their harvest queen”
Source: Paradise lost
“Adam thinks that you two are in an argument."
My body zinged into alert mode. My mind didn't know what Mrs. Vader meant, but my body already did. Even Sean glanced over at her with a cautious look.
"He does?" I asked faintly.
"A bad one," she confirmed.
"How could we be in a bad argument without me even knowing about it?”
Source: Endless Summer