Quotes
Quotes - Grant
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
I purpose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
Let us have peace.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
They [the Pilgrim Fathers] fell upon an ungenial climate, where there were nine months of winter and three months of cold weather and that called out the best energies of the men, and of the women too, to get a mere subsistence out of the soil, with such a climate. In their efforts to do that they cultivated industry and frugality at the same time--which is the real foundation of the greatness of the Pilgrims.
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.
We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers to our own private questions. That is good, as far as it goes... But better still is the advice to study the Bible objectively, ... without regard, first of all, to our own subjective needs. Let the great passages fix themselves in our memory. Let them stay there permanently, like bright beacons, launching their powerful shafts of light upon life's problemsâour own and everyone'sâas they illumine, now one, now another dark area of human life. Following such a method, we discover that the Bible does "speak to our condition" and meet our needs, not just occasionally or when some emergency arises, but continually.
The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
