“Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say.”
Message to his wife on being shot (2 July 1881), in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 217 http://books.google.com/books?id=vCAFAAAAYAAJ
1880s
Context: Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say. I am myself, and hope she will come to me soon. I send my love to her.
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American politician, 20th President of the United States (i… 1831–1881Related quotes
Variant: You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 4 (Sandhurst).
Source: My Early Life, 1874-1904
Mock them. Ridicule them. In public. Don't fall for the convention that we're all too polite to talk about religion. Religion is not off the table. Religion is not off limits. Religion makes specific claims about the universe which need to be substantiated and need to be challenged and, if necessary, need to be ridiculed with contempt.
Reason Rally, National Mall, Washington, DC,
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Richard Dawkins and his Foundation at the Reason Rally
2012-04-07
“Hey, Cammie… tell Suzie she's a lucky cat."I seriously think not!”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”
Canto II, stanza 22.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
As quoted in "Roberto Clemente: Man of Paradox" by Arnold Hano, in Sport (May 1965)
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1965</big>
