Evelyn Nesbit quotes

Evelyn Nesbit quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The tragedy wasnâ€™t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.”
-- Evelyn Nesbit

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“Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.”
-- Evelyn Nesbit

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“The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.”
-- Evelyn Nesbit

#White Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Stanford Quotes

“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. Iâ€™d fantasized about those lips way too many times. Sheâ€™d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.”
“Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.”
“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”
“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”
“Magic likes a good tragedy, too.”
“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
“Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.”

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