Theologians should not be ashamed to admit that they cannot enter a contest with such antagonists [the sceptics], and that they do... not want to expose the Gospel truths to such an attack. The ship of Jesus Christ is not made for sailing on this stormy sea, but for taking shelter from this tempest in the haven of faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability... of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The I'm-going-to-win-no-matter-how-I-have-to-do-it attitude just doesn't seem to fit. For me, a contest isn't a success unless it ...was fun, whether or not I win.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to be nice and congenial and enthusiastic. What makes that so difficult is you have to be nice, congenial, and enthusiast...ic three hundred and sixty-five days in a row!... You can't have a day off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can put a Miss America in a room with a group of other attractive women and you'll find you will know exactly who she is. It's... almost like a magnet. There is an inner beauty, an inner glow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had been sitting in my mother's house in a small town in Rhode Island watching the Miss America Pageant, as we always did. After... the telecast, I went into the kitchen with my bathrobe tied around by neck singing, "Therrrre She Is, Miss A-mer-i-caaa!" And that very next year I was there on that stage, with God knows how many people watching, and millions of seventeen-year-old women sitting in their living rooms watching the Miss America Pageant. Well, I was so emotionally touched by the whole moment that I was hysterical crying! That I was there, and that there were millions of people watching me, dreaming about doing it someday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I kept in mind that the minute it got too rough, the minute the fourteen-hour days became too long, the minute people started to b...e naggy and frustrating, I knew that I could walk away and there were over seventy-nine thousand women who would trade shoes with me in a second.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're crowned Miss America, they put you up on a pedestal. People really look up to you and they think you're perfect. They ...think that you have everything that you've ever wanted or dreamed about in life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »