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

• He has expressed his disappointment with the initial response. We, in the Congress, echo that sentiment. However, in the days following the storm, this country has demonstrated the true spirit of what makes America great, neighbors coming together and helping one another.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Great
  • Country
  • America

• Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people.

  

  Alexander Koch
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Death
  • City
  • Space

• 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