William B. Travis Quotes

Those prepared to give their lives in freedom's cause, come over to me.

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• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Romantic
  • Conversation

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Iron
  • Fooled
  • Pig

• You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Friend
  • Wonder
  • Person

• Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • People
  • Die
  • Confrontation

• Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Today

• Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Attention
  • inspirational

• Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Songs

• The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Healthy
  • Intelligence

• We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Time
  • Fiction
  • Storyteller

• It is shocking. We haven't had a performance like this before. We've always found a way to move the ball and score points, and today we just couldn't do anything. I wish I had a reason why. We've had bad games before where the next week you come in and work on something and hopefully get better, but this performance is one we'll have to think about for the next several months.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Work
  • Why
  • Bad

• I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Science

• Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • France
  • Observant
  • Indulgent

• Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Hope
  • Punishment
  • Reward

• One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

  

  Paul Nitze
  • Achieve
  • Error
  • Forgetting

• Those prepared to give their lives in freedom's cause, come over to me.

  

  William B. Travis
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