"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people."

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Source : "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

Rebecca Harding Davis

#Uplifting Quotes #War Quotes #People Quotes

“My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.”
“Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind”

Source : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
“I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.”
“My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!”
“The truth is always an abyss. One must â€” as in a swimming pool â€” dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again â€” laughing and fighting for breath â€” to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
“You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.”

Source : "Ivan Lendl enjoys the crack as unlikely double act take centre stage" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2012.
“Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.”
“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

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