Joshua Chamberlain Quotes

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Fun
  • City
  • Wishes

• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Movement
  • Dictatorship

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wishes

• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Understand
  • Movement

• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Movement
  • Revolutionary
  • Communist

• That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Character
  • Movement
  • Rights

• In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Law
  • Opinion
  • Wishes

• He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Advantage
  • Paradox

• Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Opportunity
  • Failure
  • Missing

• Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Wishes

• Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Parents
  • Control
  • Perfect

• In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and achieve structural and material complexity.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Wishes

• We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

  

  James Larkin
  • Hope
  • Inspiration
  • Movement

• If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• I'm not really the most confident guy in the world, but I also don't care too much about what people think about me either. I just try to be honest in what I like and see who likes it.

  

  Zachary Wayne Farro
  • People
  • World
  • Guy

• Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

  

  Joshua Chamberlain
  • Movement
  • Advantage
  • Wishes