Encamped Quotes

#1. Thus I found that I had been encamped with the ancient Arameans. They thought God was present only on the mountains;[10] I thought God was present only in the present.

Mark Shea

#2. We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

William Henry Ashley

#3. General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

Mercy Otis Warren

#4. We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. Persuasion is not about force; it's about showing a person a door, and making him or her desperate to open it.

David Mitchell

#7. A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

John O'Donohue

#8. The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#9. You can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.

Mario Puzo