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american-leader came foot grand mile second sheer six
On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop. Ernest Thompson Seton
american-leader fort largest longest medical scene
Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.
american-leader bow camp experience friction possible showing simplest specialty westerners
At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.
american-leader clear shall unless
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. Peter Marshall
american-leader life
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
american-leader bargaining collective destroy elected five industry resist steel
Five of the corporations in the steel industry elected to resist collective bargaining and undertook to destroy the steel workers' union. John L. Lewis
american-leader duty
We all know our duty better than we discharge it. John Randolph
american-leader clear fall shall stand unless vision
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything.
american-leader bottom language riot
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. Martin King
character interesting people
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
character past men
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
command merge sends wherever within
Wherever He sends them, there they go. By His Command, the Lord, Har, Har, abides within our minds; by His Command we merge in Truth. Granth Sahib
command
When you're in command, command. Chester W. Nimitz
command diligently god heart lie lord love shall sit soul talk teach walk words
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Moses
command good mound swing swings three total
Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swing on him, but other than that, they didn't take any good swings at him.
command objects strategic track
U.S. Strategic Command did not track any objects for re-entry. Jeff Jones
command key
Always, the key for me is the command of my fastball. And my command has been getting better and better. For the most part today, I was able to do what I wanted with it. Chris Young
command front good rivers share waters
They do command a good share of the waters in the rivers in the Front Range. John Hendricks
command common taken team
This command team has taken leadership, all for a common purpose.
command cultural enemy religious
This command does not condone the mistreatment of enemy combatants or the desecration of their religious and cultural beliefs.
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
mankind humankind knows
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. Bertrand Russell
man meet people possibilities sees six whenever
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. William James
man
When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man. Taya Kyle
man throw weather
We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that. Mike Smith
management labor position
I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor. Charles M. Schwab
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.