Abraham Lincoln Quotes

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

Abraham Lincoln

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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• I always try to be reasonable and effective.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Always
  • Try
  • Reasonable

• 'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Seems
  • Ambitious
  • Tone

• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is a unilateral solution to be imposed by Israel.... A Palestinian leader who signs on to this surrender of land and rights would be signing his death warrant.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Peace

• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• I am a very emotional person.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Emotional

• I don't like being bad at anything.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Bad

• I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.

  

  John Mackey

• Some people are more affected by, I hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Success
  • Hate

• Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Issues
  • Subjects

• Hey, is this room out of bounds?

  

  Alex Karras
  • Room
  • Bounds

• I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Passionate

• Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Ambitious

• Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Trying
  • Sleep
  • Tomorrow

• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Improvement

• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Ambitious

• Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Successful
  • Lying
  • Ambitious

• It felt good. I was just trying to throw strikes.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Strike

• I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Young

• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Ambitious
  • Bounds
  • Reasonable