John Buford Quotes

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Good
  • Think
  • Competition

• I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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  • Job
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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Great
  • May

• The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Men
  • Same

• Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Good
  • Music
  • Personality

• But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Community
  • Support
  • Enemy

• Friends are nothing but a known enemy.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Space

• Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Important

• We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

  

  John Buford
  • Time
  • Good
  • Enemy