It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points Richmond and Atlanta the enemys main strength is concentrated.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.

Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image

There's nowhere you could be that isn't where you're meant to be.

What good is having all of the cookies when you cant eat anymore

We don't believe in competition.

Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.