D.E. Stevenson Quotes

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

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

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.