Philip Adams Famous Quotes



It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.


Philip Adams Quotations






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"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
Ann Landers

Many things are lost for want of asking.
English Proverb

Time is the fire in which we burn.
Gene Roddenberry

"Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
Thomas Peters

"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel Johnson

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
Bette Davis

"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
Cicero

"The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."
Henry David Thoreau

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands"
Patrick Henry