Ganeralive Quotes & Sayings

Professional historians approach such stories with great caution, knowing there will certainly be many fake baubles in the pile. Some accounts will be almost entirely untrue. All will be somewhat distorted according to the prejudices of the author and the political requirements of the moment. Different accounts must be weighed against each other, as well as the documentary evidence and the archaeological record. Sometimes the surviving records are scant and confusing. — Richard Fidler

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained. — Robert E.Lee

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field. — Robert A. Heinlein

Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive. — Marty Rubin

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring. — Wassily Kandinsky

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan. — P. J. O'Rourke

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock. — Pete Wentz

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity. — Neil Gaiman

Wishing you were here to see the trailblazers, — Linda K. Hubalek