"Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United States...Lincoln was a great dictator....This great constitutional dictator was self appointed."

-- Clinton Rossiter

#War Quotes #Successful Quotes #Men Quotes

“So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.”

Source : Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”
“When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.”

Source : "Stephanie McMahon Q&A: 'I love to play the bad guy'". Interview with Marcus Vanderberg, sports.yahoo.com. October 21, 2014.
“Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.”

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
“With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.”
“If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun.”

Source : "A Chat With Stan Lee, `Godfather' Of Marvel Comics". Interview with Chip & Jonathan Carter, January 19, 1996.

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