Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

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• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Why
  • Black
  • Dark

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Egypt

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Why
  • Never
  • German

• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Woman

• So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Things
  • Working
  • Extreme

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Support
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • You
  • Reflect

• I am a journalist.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Journalist

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Find

• Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.

  

  Debbie Stabenow

• The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Hope
  • Rest

• I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

  

  Bill Irwin

• The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Species
  • Giant