Winfield Scott Quotes

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

Winfield Scott

• Peace
• Achievement
• Compromise

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Taken
  • King
  • Only

• I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.

  

  Parker Young
  • Confidence
  • Smart
  • Humor

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Business
  • Loved

• My father is my inspiration.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Inspiration

• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Short

• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Life

• I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Up
  • Small

• The Negro race, instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, is entitled, judged by the facts of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • History

• When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • High
  • Quality

• I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Mother
  • Courage
  • Baby

• A lot of what I've written that's made its way onto my records I've written in Kansas, which is interesting because I've never written about Kansas. But I go have these experiences. and I'll be back at my parents house, and it's like I'm in a safe incubator.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • House
  • Parents
  • Interesting

• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Real
  • Character
  • Friends

• A man can preach no better than he prays.

  

  Charles Stanley

• Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Single
  • Model

• When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Young

• I know you didn't do this for me. You did this-you did this because you believed so deeply in the most American of ideas-that in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Book
  • Unique

• A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver’s primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Intelligent

• Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Peace
  • Achievement
  • Compromise