Quotes
Quotes - Adams
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etchingâthere would be a vast improvement in total output.
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.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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.
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
