There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. 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; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
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. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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.
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city poli… - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city poli…
[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the h… - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the h…
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of whic… - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of whic…
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a w… - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a w…
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away f… - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away f…
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 a… - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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 a…
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