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Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
You are never lost when you can see the temple.
— Gary E. Stevenson
The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
— Anne Stevenson
The sea is as near as we come to another world.
— Anne Stevenson
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
I decided that I was supposed to be here to catch some of the stones people cast at each other.
— Bryan Stevenson
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
— Juliet Stevenson
Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move
— Robert Davis Stevenson
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope;
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
— Bryan Stevenson
15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You're stunning," I whisper.
I take a step towards her and pull her into my arms.
"And you're all mine. — Beckie Stevenson
I take a step towards her and pull her into my arms.
"And you're all mine. — Beckie Stevenson
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
— Adlai Stevenson I
A hungry man is not a free man.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
— Juliet Stevenson
Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
— Anne Stevenson
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
— Parker Stevenson
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong
— Robert Louis Stevenson
One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You may lay to that.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
but you're as smart as paint.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
There is but one art, to omit.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
— Parker Stevenson
ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth.
— Tyler Wigg-Stevenson
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Once again Chile reduces us to what R. L. Stevenson called 'the virginity of senses' where words cannot match the impressions received.
— Brian Keenan
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
— Bryan Stevenson
I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I've a grand memory for forgetting,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
judge overrides tend to increase in election years.
— Bryan Stevenson
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
— Bryan Stevenson
In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
— Francine Pascal
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
— Ray Stevenson
The essence of love is kindness.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
— Bryan Stevenson
How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.
— Robert Louis Stevenson