James Longstreet Quotes

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

James Longstreet

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• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Time
  • City
  • Research

• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• Actors don't have real value.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real
  • Value
  • Real Value

• It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Think

• Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • People
  • Business
  • Me

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Talent

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Me
  • Open
  • Medium

• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Children
  • School
  • Want

• A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

  

  Robert Frost
  • May
  • Worked
  • Poem

• Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• 'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Good
  • Bored

• I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Time
  • Garden

• The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

  

  James Longstreet
  • War
  • Bad
  • Mistake