Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • Research
  • Medical

• I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Boy

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • World
  • Management
  • WIld

• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Military
  • Animals

• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dance

• In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Faith
  • Understand
  • Changed

• I'm a fast writer.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Writer
  • Fast

• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Think
  • You

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

  

  Jill Robinson
  • People
  • World
  • Past

• I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Language
  • Meaning

• Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Black
  • Person
  • Human

• It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Done
  • True
  • Evil

• If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Courage
  • Human
  • Divine