Truvy Steel Magnolias Quotes & Sayings

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words? — DaShanne Stokes

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I will spend anything on the best sheets in the world because I am going to be in them every night. I like them white and crazy soft. — Amy Landecker

oh, why am I a girl? Why am I not a stupid - ? Look at you; you're stupider than I am, not much, but some, and you can lope about and get bored and then lope somewhere else, and you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified - and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony. If I were born a hundred years from now, well and good, but now what's in store for me - I have to marry, that goes without saying. Who? I'm too bright for most men, and yet I have to descend to their level and let them patronize my intellect in order to get their attention. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A blown kiss is not a proper kiss. Hugs and kisses should be hugs and kisses, not breaths of air. I am tired of breaths of air and not enough hugs and kisses. — Claire King

The divinity you seek is born with you. — Abhijit Naskar

In our world photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding. — Philip Gourevitch

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King. — Zack Wamp

One of the things I would immediately do [as Commander in Chief ], in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class - Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President [Barack] Obama things that he didn't want to hear. — Carly Fiorina

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. — Abraham Lincoln

Neeve should have guessed that her fixation with power would bring her to an opportunity to bargain with a demon, but she hadn't. She — Maggie Stiefvater

If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve. — Napoleon Hill

Fayez whistled low. That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y'know, whatever. — James S.A. Corey

The gospel is not just the means by which people get converted but also the way Christians solve their problems and grow. — Timothy Keller

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights. — John Quincy Adams