Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Together
  • Law

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

  

  Edie Falco
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  • Thinking
  • Saying

• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
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  • Question
  • Party

• After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Stop
  • Health
  • Focus

• A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Accept

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • You
  • Truth Is
  • Minority

• Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Love

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • God
  • Truth

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Words

• A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Stop
  • Humanity
  • Impossible

• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Easy

• Merle HaggardEverybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Likes

• When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Up
  • Challenge

• I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

  

  Billy Sheehan
  • Music
  • Different

• I had already been one of the uncool students in my class and had few friends. But once you could see me on the TV, I was even more uncool.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Friends
  • Students
  • TV

• For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Color
  • Distance
  • Emotion

• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Friends