"While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial."

-- Jessie Daniel Ames

#Political Quotes #Millennium Quotes

“I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.”
“Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.”
“Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of having a strong testimony, living the principles of the gospel, loving home, wanting to be a mother in Zion, and supporting you in your priesthood responsibilities. Of course, she should be attractive to you.... And one good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?”
“I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.”
“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”
“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...”
“TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.”
“You don't need to do anything to be loved. Just be who you know you are. It's the only way to experience real love.”

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