#mis

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#diplomats #message #our #prophets #ultimatum

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#accepted #always #any #anything #blame

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#just #mend #need #promise #real

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. ↗

— Henry Ford

#even #may #mistake #necessary #one thing

The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#brigade #command #effective #end #first

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#anything #desperately #i #kind #life

Love is simple. You fall and that's it. You'll work the other stuff out. You just gotta let yourself fall and have faith that someone will be there to catch you." I didn't want to do any falling. Falling usually led to meeting a hard surface in an unpleasant way. ↗

— Chelsea M. Cameron

#falling-in-love #love #my-favorite-mistake #taylor-caldwell #faith

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#asking #become #besides #character #characters

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#compromise #dirty #washington #word

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. ↗

— Liam Fox

#economic #economic policies #ever #government #incompetent