Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler -
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller -
It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden -
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Iris DeMent
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Randall Terry -
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius -
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch -
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain -
I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon -
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
Barbara G. Walker
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
Sam Smith -
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner -
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
Valerie Plame -
It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
S. Truett Cathy -
Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
Bryan Adams
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...I saw it clearly. The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency....I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace'.
Earl Lovelace -
I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.
Janet Jackson -
Filthy abortion clinics are not uncommon, but finding out about health violations at each clinic is no easy task.
Abby Johnson -
People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
Viggo Mortensen -
In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
Abraham Lincoln