Comyns Fine Quotes & Sayings

The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not. — John Adams

Do you like the fall of the year?" The man gave an odd laugh. "Why?" "One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away . . . and we hardly notice their passing." The — Jan Karon

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless — Steven Pinker

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws. — Scott McClellan

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers. — Irwin Thomas

I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together.
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever. — Michael Howard

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region. — Frank Carlucci

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell

Your mistake does not define who you are ... you are your possibilities. — Oprah Winfrey

Affirmation: I am one, but I'm not alone. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is complete within me. — Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you — Ieyasu Tokugawa

I wouldn't describe it like that. It was . . . hazardous and delicate. I've had easier times disarming explosives . . . — Amy A. Bartol