Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Home
  • Night

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • I Can
  • Breath
  • Hold

• I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sick
  • Partner
  • Saying

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  

  Pam Gems
  • War
  • Philosophy
  • Personage

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Jazz

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Business
  • Luck

• Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • World
  • Sweet
  • Loved

• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Education
  • Relationship

• I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Life
  • Nice

• There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.

  

  Brea Grant
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• My hope is that 'The New World Haggadah' will open a new world for readers who will see our heritage through a multilingual prism. I wanted to feature medieval and renaissance authors, resistance in World War II, crypto-Jews and activists during the Dirty War in Latin America, songs of protest, and songs of hope.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • War
  • America

• In addition to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which is crucial to U.S. interests both domestically and in the Middle East, the U.S. has had and will continue to need Egypt's collaboration in the war on terrorism.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • War
  • Peace
  • Collaboration

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Peace

• In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Government
  • Present