"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."

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Source : William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America

William Tecumseh Sherman

#War Quotes #Fierce Quotes #Tire Quotes

“Don't breed, don't buy, don't even accept giveaways.”
“You care enough to play hard to get.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2012). “Goodnight Tweetheart”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
“We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young ones of a tortoise look up to their mother. As a fountain rises upwards, even so must one's spirit rise to God. One should entertain no idea whatsoever, except that of God.”
“Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.”
“I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly a product of the imagination. I can comprehend a lot by immersing myself in all of the information I've collected, but my imagination is what brings it to life, and the bridging of that gap - between the received history and the conceived fiction - is both the most difficult and most enjoyable part of the process for me.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org. July 11, 2006.
“There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.”
“If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.”

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