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“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780
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“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.90, UPNE
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“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
Source : The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1
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“But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.”
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“I want in all cases to do right.”
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“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.”
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“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”
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“There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”
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“In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
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“Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.”
Source : Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media
