Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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• Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Nothing

• In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • American
  • Me
  • English

• Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Philosophy

• I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Being
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Training
  • Nobody
  • Coach

• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Star
  • Wind
  • Just

• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Trouble
  • Cat
  • Pet

• Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Education
  • Focus
  • Successful

• I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Cute
  • Worth
  • Vintage

• I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hair
  • Weird
  • Year

• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Idleness
  • Heaviest

• Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Children
  • Stop
  • Danger

• Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13

  

  Ze Frank

• Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel.. .One must have only one master – nature; she is the one always be consulted.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • She
  • Nature

• My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Health

• Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • American
  • Poverty
  • Safety

• In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • City

• I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.

  

  James Murphy

• When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Believe
  • True
  • Shows

• In quiet places, reason abounds.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson