"America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now."

-- Seth Grahame-Smith

#America Quotes #Mississippi Quotes #Pointing Quotes

“Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.”
“The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.”
“There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.”
“In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.”
“I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.”
“You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!”
“Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.”

Source : "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 36), 1952.
“And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.”

Source : Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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