Alexander H. Stephens Quotes

#1. Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

Matthew Macfadyen

#2. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

Pope Francis

#3. We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Joseph Joubert

#4. Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Alexander H. Stephens

#5. If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

Bill Parcells

#6. Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery ... is his natural and normal condition.

Alexander H. Stephens

#7. said "let's send that fuckin' Flowers up there. He hasn't done anything for us lately."
"He's off today," somebody said.
Davenport said, "So what?

John Sandford

#8. Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards ... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

Alexander H. Stephens

#9. The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#10. The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.

Lois Lowry

#11. There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Buzz Aldrin

#12. Do you understand what it would do to me if someone got to you? ... It would destroy me if you or those babies were hurt, Brynna. You are necessary to my survival, goddamn it.

Kristen Proby

#13. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

Alexander H. Stephens

#14. I was born and raised in southern Utah.

Ally Condie

#15. You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

Jodi Picoult

#16. At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

Rufus Sewell

#17. I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

Martin Freeman

#18. The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Alexander H. Stephens