Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Voice

• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Free
  • Reading

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • May
  • First
  • Example

• The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Peace

• Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Trying
  • Wise
  • Fool

• From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Technology
  • Understanding
  • Listening

• One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Man
  • Respect

• I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Song
  • Unique
  • Unknown

• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Time
  • Failure

• There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

  

  Brian Behlendorf

• I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Night
  • Light
  • Lost

• Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Real
  • Gold

• A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Together

• There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • School
  • Actor
  • Vampire

• Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Resistance
  • Retreat

• I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Past
  • Hero
  • Praise

• There's plenty of time to look at this for a while until either he shows improvement or else we go back to more of a basic offensive standard ... and take that guard responsibility away. Move him into a forward place where he can make plays and he can still be a participant in the offense.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Improvement

• In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • World
  • Night

• I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Citizens
  • Praise
  • Observe