General James Longstreet Quotes & Sayings

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. — Moby

Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of strangeness before it actually totters, but freaked, yes. — Stephen King

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee. — James Longstreet

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! — James Longstreet

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually. — Xavier Dolan

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line. — James Longstreet

Don't let those wicked men win, don't let them destroy you! — Gladys Lawson

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light. — James Turrell

I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.
- Lieutenant General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee after the initial Confederate victories on day one of the Battle of Gettysburg. — Michael Shaara

I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say. — Rhys Wakefield

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. — James Longstreet

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off. — James Longstreet

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine. — Drake

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself. — Eric Metaxas

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it. — James Longstreet

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes. — Pope Paul VI

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. — C.S. Lewis

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. — Theodore Roosevelt

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude? — Eva Mendes

What the Englishman said about survival was this: "If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die." He said that he had seen several men die in the following way: "They ceased to stand up straight, then ceased to shave or wash, then ceased to get out of bed, then ceased to talk, then died. There is this much to be said for it: it is evidently a very easy and painless way to go." So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut