"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."

-- Allen Tate

#Ambition Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.”
“But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.”
“I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.”
“The retirement financial crisis will affect far more people than baby boomers, and certainly it will affect their children. Most of the retirees and near-retirees with whom we talked, said that they were extremely reluctant to have to depend on their children financially, or to think of moving in with their children. But the mere fact that they were discussing those issues indicates that some of them have already figured out that that is what lies ahead for them.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“We ran like a herd of wild cattle.”

Source : Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
“People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making.”
“The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.”
“The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.”

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