Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
Quotes to Explore
-
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
-
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
-
This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
-
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
-
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
-
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
-
I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
-
When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
-
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
-
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
-
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
-
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
-
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
-
Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
-
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
-
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
-
I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
-
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
-
A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
-
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
-
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
