Abraham Lincoln Quotes
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.
Abraham Lincoln
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
Wayne Huizenga
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
Ina Garten
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin
I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
Cameron Winklevoss
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Eckhart Tolle
My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
Kate Williams
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
Ed Koch
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
Nancy Willard
On the Gulf War The ground war lasted 100 hours. A hundred fuckin' hours. I've had parties go on longer than that, folks!
Sam Kinison
We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.
Phil Jackson
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.
Abraham Lincoln