James Longstreet Quotes

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

James Longstreet

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Community
  • Stop
  • Thought

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
  • Mine
  • Networking

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

  

  Mark Kurlansky

• The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Strange
  • Accounts

• People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Caring

• Wordsworth has gone from us - and ye, Ah, may ye feel his voice as we! He too upon a wintry clime Had fallen - on this iron time Of doubts, disputes, distractions, fears.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Time
  • May

• What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Time
  • Army