Battle Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There was no eagerness in the sheep woman’s face, only the impersonal curiosity of a spectator at a display in which he had no…

— Caroline Lockhart

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than…

— Ronald Reagan

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“People often wondered what it was that made her so very compelling. Why she drew people in again and again? It wasn’t her beauty…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“The day wore on, and all these bright colours subsided, and assumed a quieter tint, like young hopes softened down by time, or youthful…

— Charles Dickens

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its…

— Neil Gaiman

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime.…

— Elizabeth Strout

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to…

— John Milton

“The dull gray days of the preceding winter and spring, so uneventless and monotonous, seemed more associated with what she cared for now above…

— Elizabeth Gaskell