I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter,… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as… — Julie Bindel Copy Share Image
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make the boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy of course, is resistance of the… — George Yeoman Pocock Copy Share Image
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
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[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese… — William Halsey Copy Share Image
The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
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