"We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold."

-- John Buford

#Enemy Quotes #Entering Quotes #Afternoon Quotes

“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
“The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.”

Source : Edwin Paxton Hood (1885). “Bye-path Meadow”
“If youâ€™d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, youâ€™d be better off accidentally than youâ€™ve ever been on purpose!”
“The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.”
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
“In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.”
“Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.”
“Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the â€œdisturbancesâ€ in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.”

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