Adopt Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Patience, Her

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
Dalai Lama

Anyone, Meditation, Buddhism

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

Attitude, Simply, Morality

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Enemy, Cannot

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe

Children, Else, Another

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

Religion, Political, Become

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

Religion, Science, Away

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence, Himself, Distrust

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper

Attitude, Argument, Effect

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
Shelley Morrison

Business, Pet, Children

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.
Kim Kardashian

Letters, Begging

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
Leland Stanford

Women, Best, Selfish

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
Marco Rubio

Today, Simple, Someone

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
Newt Gingrich

Family, Here, Party

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.
Marco Rubio

End, Here, Often

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Good, Mother

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
LaToya Jackson

Family, Plan, Ready

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
Mary J. Blige

Time, Parenting, Children

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret Mitchell

Engineers, Soldiers, Lawyers

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
Sarah Palin

Government, Winners, Everyone

I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt.
Sophia Bush

Again, Kids, Married

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
Mary J. Blige

Care, Honest, Quite

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
Mary J. Blige

Time, Give, Try

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.
Francois Hollande

Mistakes, End, Give

I always knew I would adopt. Always.
Charlize Theron

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
Dan Savage

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
Robert Rodriguez

Technology, Creative, Slowest

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.
Courteney Cox

Work, Another, Child

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
Patti Stanger

Mom, Beautiful, Child

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