Nelson A. Miles Quotes

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

Nelson A. Miles

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• By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Time
  • Job
  • Team

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • America
  • Future
  • Past

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Year
  • September
  • Terrorism

• The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • World
  • Experience
  • Future

• With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Changes

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Money
  • Home
  • Yourself

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Time
  • Trying

• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love as well as he. Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?- He can add wings when he commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismay'd; He that examples gives will give his aid: For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall, His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • High
  • Alone

• When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Justice

• At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Alone
  • Judgement

• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • Alone
  • Savage