Robert E. Lee Quotes

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Robert E. Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870

Topics

FightPeopleChristianLongKnow

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

Andrei Codrescu

MotherFreedomHardHeadWestGoing

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Angelina Grimke

ChildrenTimeTrustWillHumanMost

NASCAR, there's nothing wrong with it, it's very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

Robby Gordon

WrongNothingCompetitiveNASCAR

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Mary Szybist

FaithHopeTimeSometimesHard

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Miguel de Unamuno

ScienceDoubtTrueIgnorantAbove

I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete.

Mohsin Hamid

IdentityPeopleThinkAmericanStop

I have not always been a risk taker.

Julia Hartz

RiskAlwaysBeen

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

Derek Cianfrance

LifeLoveCharacterTimeWifeNever

I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'

Chris Pavone

BusinessJobWifeWritingBookTwo

To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?

Corey Taylor

MusicPeopleMeVoiceLearnYou

I have a dream that in the not-too-distant future, Visy Tumut will spend around $100 m to expand our clean energy generation here and take in additional waste forest wood to generate clean renewable energy and sell it into the power grid.

Anthony Pratt

FuturePowerEnergyGenerationDream

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

Sharon Salzberg

TiredMindStartThoughtDoubtOver

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