"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."

-- Bob Woodward

#Country Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Apology Quotes

“Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.”
“It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.”

Source : Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Child Life in Colonial Times”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.”
“Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.”
“I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.”
“I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.”
“For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.”
“Know that TODAY, and each and everyday literally becomes the BEST day of your life, when YOU choose to see that it is. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, it only matters what's going on inside of you.”

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