George Pickett Quotes

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

George Pickett

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• I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Dance

• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Firsts
  • Doctrine
  • Establishment Clause

• A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Support

• He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Giving
  • Food
  • Attention

• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Hate

• I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • France
  • Ground
  • Sword

• If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Nation
  • German
  • Europe

• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Forever
  • Silence

• Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Universe
  • Brain
  • Possibilities

• Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Being
  • Relation
  • Constitutive

• When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

  

  Cole Hamels
  • Ready
  • Miss
  • Throw

• In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the '50's and '60's, and we're going to develop more, too.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Mother
  • Show
  • Pieces

• Look at him. He's no bigger than he's always been.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Look

• It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Team
  • Road
  • Clubs

• We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Focus
  • Race
  • Income

• Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

  

  George Clooney
  • Names
  • Damn
  • Rice

• That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

  

  George Pickett
  • Division