Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Science
  • Humanities

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Community
  • Always

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

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Opinion

• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Better

• I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • House

• I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Free
  • Democracy

• The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Done

• Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society
  • Trade
  • Description

• I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Free
  • Wish