Alexander H. Stephens Quotes

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Alexander H. Stephens

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• Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Stocks
  • Plateau

• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes

• O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

  

  William James
  • Real
  • Book
  • Philosophy

• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • World
  • Change
  • Relative

• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  

  John Milton
  • Life
  • Death
  • Faithful

• What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Shadow
  • Exist
  • Disappeared

• I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Career
  • Die
  • Mistake

• I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Choices
  • Word
  • Villain

• The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Home
  • Themselves
  • Reactionaries

• I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Government
  • State of Israel

• It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Perfect

• ‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Injustice
  • Pull
  • Bootstraps

• I'm OK with people being naked. There shouldn't be a huge deal made about it.

  

  Hannah Teter
  • People being naked

• Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Wind
  • Blow
  • Firm

• I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Firm
  • Obstinate
  • Timid