Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLA man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
More Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes
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I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home.
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
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A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
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If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he’s the hell of a diplomat.
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Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
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Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation!
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You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.
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There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
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Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
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When the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.
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There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
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Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
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[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said,
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Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics.
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Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted.
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