Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

Abraham Lincoln

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• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Up
  • She
  • Reading

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Impossible
  • Program
  • Been

• Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Miracle

• Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Political
  • Control
  • Car

• There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.

  

  Psy
  • World

• The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Crazy

• You can look good. Don't let nobody tell you you can't look good because of your size... or what size your feet is.

  

  Leslie Jones
  • Good

• When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

  

  Chinua Achebe

• It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Beautiful

• Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Opinion
  • Alcohol

• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Thoughts

• The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.

  

  William Rawle
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Control

• For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Achieve
  • Suppose

• I wonder why I write about these things. As if I didn't know them! Why do I tell myself in writing what I already so well know? Don't I know about the mountain, and the brimming cup of blue light? It is because, I suppose, it's lonely to stay inside oneself. One has to come out and talk. And if there is no one to talk to one imagines someone, as though one were writing a letter to somebody who loves one, and who will want to know, with the sweet eagerness and solicitude of love, what one does and what the place one is in looks like. It makes one feel less lonely to think like this,—to write it down, as if to one's friend who cares. For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• Bob Corker was not the inside man that, certainly, Senator [Jeff] Sessions was. And he doesn`t telegraph what`s going on. He`s been much more discreet about that.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Men
  • Bob
  • Senators

• Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Suppose
  • Flattered
  • Good Deal