1941 Famous Quotes & Sayings

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die. — Hampton Sides

You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation. — John Piper

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. — Al Leiter

Rita Haywood gave good face. — Madonna Ciccone

Human cloning is coming. — Mike Pence

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home. — Mona Simpson

Let us be elegant or die! — Louisa May Alcott

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television. — Stan Lee

Status is about counting, numbering, ranking and ultimately about excluding. — Andy Crouch

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment. — David Jeremiah