Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Three
  • Ready
  • Settle

• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

  

  Baby Face Willette
  • Real
  • Love
  • Hurt

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • World
  • Forget
  • Start

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Life
  • Music
  • Family

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Lead
  • Habits

• I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Life
  • Think

• If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Passion

• Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

  

  Uncle Kracker
  • Critics
  • Compare
  • Ice

• Not an unconscious state Or mental chloroform without wilful return,Samadhi but extends my realm of consciousnessBeyond the limits of my mortal frameTo the boundaries of eternity,Where I, the Cosmic Sea,Watch the little ego floating in Me.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Sea
  • Ego

• In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

  

  Aly Khan
  • Great
  • Law
  • Islamic

• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Wisdom