If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in theinfringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency. " And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism.
You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about?
I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while
Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.
I'm not trying to stump anybody. . . it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.
I know what every colored woman in this country is doing. . . Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
