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It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. — John Quincy Adams

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair. — John Quincy Adams

You have to know that your real home is within. — Quincy Jones

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw. — John Quincy Adams

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams

Duty is ours, results are God's. — John Quincy Adams

I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else. — John Quincy Adams

Gone were the memories of her days spent with Quincy. The best thing Chanel could have ever done was shoot that nigga. The — Nako

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.' — Quincy Jones

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved. — Michele Bachmann

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams

Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him, Abigail observed to John Quincy — David McCullough

My husband's name is Christopher Morgan, and we met in Atlanta. My two children are Sebastian and Quincy. — Kim Fields

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. — John Quincy Adams

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. — Quincy Jones

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency. — John Quincy Adams

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. — Josiah Quincy

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it. — Quincy Jones

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. — John Quincy Adams

I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows. — Quincy Jones

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. — Quincy Jones

I live on the Internet. — Quincy Jones

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. — John Quincy Adams

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap. — Quincy Jones

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk. — Quincy Jones

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line. — Quincy Jones

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. — Quincy Jones

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear. — Quincy Jones

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams

We know the redemption must come. — John Quincy Adams

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found. — John Quincy Adams

Tie me, tease me, let your pleasure please me. Hurt me, love me, but please don't ever leave me ... — Pepper Winters

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free. — Quincy Jones

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau's finest profilers. — Lisa Gardner

This is the last of earth! I am content. — John Quincy Adams

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. — John Quincy Adams

Individual liberty is individual power. — John Quincy Adams

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. — Quincy Jones

Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind. — Quincy Jones

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from. — Quincy Jones

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war. — John Quincy Adams

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation. — John Quincy Adams

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody. — Quincy Jones

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea. — Quincy Jones

The freedom of the press should be inviolate. — John Quincy Adams

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people. — John Quincy Adams

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. — John Quincy Adams

When you take a moment to think about how vast the universe is, you can either choose to feel very small or very special. — Aaron Quincy

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. — Quincy Jones

No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape! — Quincy Jones

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God — John Quincy Adams

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know. — Quincy Jones

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers. — John Quincy Adams

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. — Quincy Jones

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done. — John Quincy Adams

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room. — Quincy Jones

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.' — Quincy Jones

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. — Quincy Jones

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. — John Quincy Adams

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. — John Quincy Adams

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore. — Paul C. Nagel

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone. — John Quincy Adams

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. — John Quincy Adams

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music. — Quincy Jones

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. — John Quincy Adams

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible. — John Quincy Adams

I'm not a psychiatrist. — Quincy Jones

The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS — James W. Loewen

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. — Quincy Jones

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go. — Quincy Jones

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy. — Quincy Jones

However it happened, you are my wife and I am grateful. I look at you and I know you were worth waiting for.
- Sebastian Stanhope — Diana Quincy

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. — John Quincy Adams

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon. — Quincy Jones

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. — Quincy Jones

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. — Quincy Jones

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me. — Quincy Jones

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. — John Quincy Adams

My son is a hip-hop producer. — Quincy Jones

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind. — John Quincy Adams

I was the most subtle person in the world. — Quincy Jones

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. — John Quincy Adams

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. — John Quincy Adams

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams

I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics. — Quincy Jones

I'd been in love before - I was always in love. — Quincy Jones

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. — John Quincy Adams