"Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche."

-- Sam Houston

#Perseverance Quotes #War Quotes #Moving Quotes

“Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.”

Source : "Dirty Dancing". www.imdb.com. 1987.
“It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.”

Source : Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr
“We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.”
“I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.”
“...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.61, Crown Business
“I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.”
“The only way for us to make sense of life today is to appreciate where the future is going. Scripture outlines that future, not with detailed dates, but with a general outline of what is to come. That outline is designed not to have us prepare charts, but to prepare our hearts.”
“American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.”

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