Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adlai Stevenson I

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1835 - June 14, 1914

Topics

LongYouFlatteryRightInhale

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

Joe Nichols

MeRestDoingTryingCountryMatter

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

John Thorn

MenPrideKnowPersonalUpOwn

I share every aspect of my life with the Internet. Whether or not that's a good thing, I don't know.

Troye Sivan

LifeGoodInternetMy LifeKnow

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Robert Anton Wilson

PhiladelphiaNewNextSeemsJersey

You can't censor people's dreams.

Robyn Hitchcock

DreamsPeopleYouCensor

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.

Ruth Reichl

YouTastePrettyDisgustingDoughnut

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

Josh Homme

DaughterTrustBestJobBelieveYou

I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.

Chris Evans

LoveWantNeverEverythingThings

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

Cole Swindell

WorkQuestioningThingsHowStopped

If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'

Brian Binnie

SchoolPeopleMeStupidFlyChance

I just think it's crazy that we don't think that the youth are valid. They're the ones who really know what's going on.

Petra Collins

YouthCrazyThinkKnowGoingJust

While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.

Peter A. Levine

StressNervousEventsStudyingMost

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