Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Longstreet

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Calamity Jane

In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey.

Abraham Whipple

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

John B. Hood

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

Zebulon Pike

Each Pawnee presented them with a horse, gave a pipe to smoke to the Osage to whom he had made the present. In this manner were eight horses given.

Kenneth H. Cooper

I've got many examples of people who have been exercising for 15 years and who are now 70, and their heart rate is the same as when they were 50.

Norman Schwarzkopf

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

James Stockdale

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

Jessica Lynch

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

Nancy Clark

It is a little like finding a needle in a haystack.

William Wycherley

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Willem Dafoe

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Farooq Kathwari

People who purchased three or four years back, today are finding money to redecorate their homes.

Richard Hoffmann

Part of this is really finding the right match. We have some great candidates.

Jordan Leopold

I'll probably end up finding myself on the left side with somebody else instead of the right but whatever comes our way, we just have to weather the storm.

Rob Enderle

I have trouble finding a study without it quickly being disqualified by who funded it,

Benjamin Miller

I like finding it. It's the hunt, the hoping, the search for it.

Charlotte McKinney

I'm really interested in finding good tips to stay in shape, and I love being in the gym, and I love doing yoga.

Pat Hanlon

I wouldn't say disappointing. I think surprising is the right word. And that includes sales to the general public, not just the waiting list members.

Andrew Miller

It can't be right that ministers be given such wide and general powers.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.