He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into the fray,' and that was sort of a motto of his.


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I'd see him on downtown street corners, always with a camera. He'd be testing the light.
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM
Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that y...
EVELYN WAUGH
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unatt...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
They tore the covers off our antique cars and our classic cars because I'm sure there was a cat on t...
EVELYN HESTER
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
EVELYN WAUGH
We have a good marker, non-invasively, and do see increased atherosclerosis -- also more plaque and ...
EVELYN TALBOTT
By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spir...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 Love... makes the whole difference between an...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small th...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depen...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Can...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Mande un angel a vilgilar te, pero regreso, porque Angeles no vigilan otros Angeles
EVELYN JIMENEZ
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who i...
EVELYN WAUGH
[A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge...
EVELYN WAUGH
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t...
EVELYN WAUGH
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
EVELYN WAUGH
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGH
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH
I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGH
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
EVELYN WAUGH
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker
EVELYN WAUGH
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aes...
EVELYN WAUGH
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed cl...
EVELYN WAUGH
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official...
EVELYN WAUGH
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty i...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.
EVELYN KLEBERT
It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.
EVELYN WAUGH
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, o...
EVELYN WAUGH
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get thin...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slight...
EVELYN WAUGH
They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always ...
EVELYN WAUGH
Here's an idea, how about you stop drinking? How about you go to rehab? Or you could just do us all ...
EVELYN SMITH
You don’t want to threaten me sis.
EVELYN SMITH
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
EVELYN WAUGH
Of course, I just assumed that the world was full of solo percussionists. It was only when I studied...
EVELYN GLENNIE