Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • House
  • Success

• The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Sick
  • Memory

• For NASA, space is still a high priority.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • High
  • Space
  • Priority

• The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • High
  • Car
  • Better

• While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • True
  • Friend
  • Focus

• I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I live, to get out of what I live through.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Live

• I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Interesting
  • Car

• The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

  

  Johnny Bench

• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Political

• Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Giving
  • Worship

• Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actually true- I do have to be in control all the time. But only because I am in charge, of course.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Peace
  • Forgiveness

• If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Enemy
  • Criticize
  • Adages

• My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.

  

  Ed Gass-Donnelly
  • People
  • Movies
  • Circumstances

• You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

  

  Isaac Rosenberg
  • Education
  • Circumstances
  • Brought

• We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Reality
  • Quality
  • Choices

• Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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