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7190 quotesBeauty is the promise of happiness.
Beauty
Henri B. Stendhal
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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Approval
Casey Stengel
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
Attitude
Casey Stengel
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Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Nature
Gil Stern
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Anecdotes
Laurence Sterne
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Complaints and Complaining
Laurence Sterne
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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
Knowledge
Ray Stevens
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Poetry and Poets
Wallace Stevens
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Thoughts and Thinking
Wallace Stevens
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Change
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Vision
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
Golf
Adlai E. Stevenson
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
President
Adlai E. Stevenson
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
Life and Living
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Words
Adlai E. Stevenson
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Civilization
Adlai E. Stevenson
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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
Platitudes
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson
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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Age and Aging
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Books - Reading
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Ancestry
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun