Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Man
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Man
  • Myself

• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Literature

• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Unhappy

• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Man

• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Man
  • Crazy
  • Thoughtful

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Man
  • Preparation
  • Slow

• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Man
  • Praise
  • Over

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Man

• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The creative aspect is the most rewarding for me. By that, I mean seeing a concept come to life. It's the part where I sit in my restaurant Tabun Kitchen on a Friday night, listen to the buzz and see the delight on people's faces as they eat, soaking in and enjoying the atmosphere.

  

  Hanan Kattan
  • Atmosphere
  • Tabun Kitchen

• The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Wishes
  • Young Man