Sifford Ottoman Quotes & Sayings

If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides of a troubled situation, Lincoln urged a more sympathetic understanding of the nation's alienated citizens in the South. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little. — George S. Patton

Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn't happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live in a purposeful universe. Life is always for you; it is never against you. It is a fact that blessings sometimes come wrapped in fear, pain, and tears. In choosing to practice unconditional gratitude you are choosing to trust the process, to honor your feelings and to place your faith in an outcome of inevitable grace. — William Holden

To Hope
When by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head. — John Keats

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre. — William Shakespeare

Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial! — James MacDonald

The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. — Rachel Carson

If she knew anything, it was nothing at all,except what she thought she knew. — Jasmine Sandozz