#ss

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #knack #learning #miss

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#goodness #karma #kindness #respect

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. ↗

— Henry Adams

#hired #interests #involved #lies #nobody

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' ↗

— Joey Adams

#explained #get #late #oil #once

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#come #cry #feel #i #just

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ↗

— John Adams

#cannot #dictates #evidence #facts #inclinations

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

The happiness of society is the end of government. ↗

— John Adams

#government #happiness #society

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#american revolution #bond #christianity #civil #civil government

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#freedom #irate #keen #majority #men