#so

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#confident #equally #god #him #incessantly

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armed #habits #may #mission #personal

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#beautiful #cost #deal #diamonds #divorce

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#smart #stacked #where #woman #written

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#brothers #denver #i #lives #mom

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#least #sides #some #trial #truth

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#body language #costume #exaggerated #language #need

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#cut #happy #how #long #matter