P. G. T. Beauregard Quotes
The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.P. G. T. Beauregard
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
Rachael Ray -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
Dan Shechtman -
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
Carine Roitfeld -
I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
Calvin Johnson
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Those who go along get along.
Sam Snead -
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
Malcolm X -
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
Gary Weiss -
Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
Tammy Duckworth
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. Lucas -
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
Harriet Walter -
A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
Wavy Gravy -
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.
Walter Bagehot -
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Oscar Wilde -
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
Alan Ball -
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
Richard Scott Bakker -
Some deaths a man can enjoy, the death of an enemy, and Sharpe was paid to have enemies. Yet he did not wish death on the French. There was more satisfaction in seeing a surrendered enemy, a defeated enemy, than in seeing a slaughtered enemy.
Bernard Cornwell -
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."
Stephen Covey -
The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
P. G. T. Beauregard