Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes
Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.
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I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.
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I didn't study music. I literally lived it.
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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.
