Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Cope

• If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • America
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Song
  • Singing

• 'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Family
  • Company
  • Run

• Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Universe
  • Rich
  • Window

• They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Away
  • Clock

• I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Music
  • Age
  • Fashion

• Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Child

• Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Peace

• 'Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess,' he said quietly. 'Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their conscience with the gift of survival.'Miriamele thought about the obvious truth of what Cadrach had said as they walked on, but could not understand why it made her so unutterably sad.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Up
  • Why
  • Truth

• The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form...

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• Cultural change is the statistical product of the separate behavioral responses of large numbers of human beings who cope as best they can with social existence.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Money
  • Priority
  • Volunteer

• He said he don't like em boney, he want something he can grab

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Want
  • Said
  • Bragging

• If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness and take it as if today was the last day of your life. Don't be looking constantly to the future.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Husband
  • Married

• By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • Law
  • Brother
  • Slavery

• If we surround ourselves with people who are successful, who are forward-moving, who are positive, who are focused on producing results, who support us, it will challenge us to be more and do more and share more. If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the greatest gift that anyone can hope for.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Support
  • Moving

• A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.

  

  Richard V. Allen
  • Challenges
  • Congress
  • Administration

• A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson