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England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The will of the people is the best law.
— Ulysses S. Grant
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
— John Lubbock
Treat each other with respect, even if other people can only look at the colour of your eyes.
— Ulysses Brave
The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. [on James Joyce's Ulysses] — Virginia Woolf
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
— Allan Sherman
Ulysses'. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun.
— Richard Flanagan
Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.
— Ulysses S. Grant
He read and reread 'Ulysses'. He looked back at Amy. They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said.
— Richard Flanagan
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
— Ulysses G. Weatherly
The theory of government changes with general progress.
— Ulysses S. Grant
James Joyce's Ulysses
— Pamela Paul
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
— Raymond Queneau
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
— Abraham Cowley
Delectable," Ulysses said. "Of all the drinks that I have drank on all the planets I have visited, the coffee is the best.
— Clifford D. Simak
I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
— Salman Rushdie
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
— Robert A. Heinlein
Ulysses Club (Australia) a social club for riders over 40, whose membership is dedicated to "growing old disgracefully", or
— Stella Rheingold
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly
— Ulysses S. Grant
I will not move my army without onions.
— Ulysses S. Grant
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.
— Ulysses S. Grant
His presence soon restored confidence.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I have been Homer; shortly, I shall be No One, like Ulysses; shortly, I shall be all men; I shall be dead.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It will be all right if it turns out all right.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I am, a stride at a time
— James Joyce
We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Alfred Tennyson
Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.
— James Joyce
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Each Australian is a Ulysses.
— Christina Stead
HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS ULYSSES! Holy
— Kate DiCamillo
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I knew the enemy were ready to break and only wanted a little encouragement from us to go quickly and join their friends who had started earlier.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.
— Ulysses S. Grant
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home
— Ulysses S. Grant
No, it did a lot of other things, too. [turning down fan who asked to kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses — James Joyce
When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom
— William, Saroyan
Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots.
— Ulysses Brave
Of this trinity of classic heroes - Ulysses, Aeneas, and Achilles - Ulysses is the least obnoxious.
— William A. Quayle
On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
— Werner Herzog
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
— Mark Twain
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.
— Ulysses S. Grant
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Ah, you know my weaknessesmy children and my horses. — Ulysses S. Grant
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. — Alfred Tennyson
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
— Ulysses S. Grant
We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?
— Ulysses S. Grant
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
— Ulysses S. Grant
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
— Ulysses S. Grant
He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.
— James Joyce
Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
— Ulysses S. Grant
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.
— Joachim Du Bellay
I'm afraid I'm elected.
— Ulysses S. Grant
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
— Ulysses S. Grant
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest.
— Ulysses Brave
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Be just before you are generous.
— James Joyce
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten then he who continues the attack wins.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.
— Ulysses S. Grant
But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
— Orson Scott Card
Shite and onions!
— James Joyce
I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
— Ulysses S. Grant
A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect,
— Ulysses S. Grant
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
— Ulysses S. Grant
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
— James Patterson
Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?
— Ulysses Brave
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.
— Sara Sheridan
