Abraham Lincoln Quotes
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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I'm curvy.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.
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Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
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You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
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I think creativity becomes really beautiful and magical when you allow it to do what it's needing you to do.
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
