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
[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…
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…
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…
You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are! - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
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…
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
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