Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

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• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Moon
  • Fly

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Home
  • America
  • Parents

• I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Streets
  • Grind
  • Sit

• My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Character
  • Emotional

• So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rock

• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Beauty

• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Study

• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Time
  • Long
  • America

• Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

  

  U Thant
  • Small
  • Understanding
  • Tolerance

• In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Community
  • Gay
  • Hollywood

• My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Capacity

• Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Up
  • God
  • Free

• You can't just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living.

  

  Richard Tyler Blevins
  • Focus
  • Living
  • Video Games

• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Help
  • Learn
  • Sorrow

• I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Facts

• And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Perfection

• The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

  

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • Facts
  • Knowing
  • Perfection