We've found 5 quotes for 'adopted' (0.1 seconds):
| "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." »Steven Wright |
| "The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end." »Saint Jerome |
| "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." »Hyman Rickover |
| "Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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