Contradice Quotes & Sayings

This officer forced his way through the crowd to the carriage, and said: "Mr. President, I have a cause of grievance. This morning I went to speak to Colonel Sherman, and he threatened to shoot me." Mr. Lincoln, who was still standing, said, "Threatened to shoot you?" "Yes, sir, he threatened to shoot me." Mr. Lincoln looked at him, then at me, and stooping his tall, spare form toward the officer, said to him in a loud stage-whisper, easily heard for some yards around: "Well, if I were you, and he threatened to shoot, I would not trust him, for I believe he would do it." The officer turned about and disappeared, and the men laughed at him. — William T. Sherman

Three things I remember: I was in a city so old it did not have a name,; there was a full moon that cast a pale light over buildings unlike any I had ever seen before; and at the end of a long tunnel something was waiting for me. — Jonathan Aycliffe

All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person. — Graeme Simsion

There are men whose hearts insist upon a dogged fidelity to some image or cause thrown by chance into their keeping, long after their judgment has pronounced it no rarity - even the reverse, indeed, and without them the band of the worthy is incomplete. — Thomas Hardy

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now. — David Luiz

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints. In fact, we often indulge in what I call the "respectable" or "acceptable" sins without any sense of sin. Our — Jerry Bridges

Wherever it might be that good men like Smit go to when they die I hope very much that it has a decent library. — Christopher Leary

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging. — Michael A. Stackpole

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. — Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all ... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea. — Bruce Coville

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed. — Og Mandino