Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Want
  • Know
  • Passion

• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • More

• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Passion
  • Found
  • Theater

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Movie

• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Choice

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Born

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Awake

• Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Give

• After a day in Cannes, I pass out before I even get to my bed. I'll get to my room, order room service, shower, and sleep.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Service

• I never went to college. I started working when I was 17.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • College

• There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

  

  Jim Gaffigan

• Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Country
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Important

• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Passion
  • Sleep
  • Idea