"The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."

-- Walter Millis

#Strong Quotes #War Quotes #Character Quotes

“Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.”
“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”
“Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.”

Source : Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.134, Orient Paperbacks
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

Source : Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.463, Harvard University Press
“I'm a Cancer; I'm music passionate. I like long walks on the beach.”
“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”

Source : Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”
“It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.”
“It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after”

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