Abraham Lincoln Quotes
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
-
If I have anything, it's tenacity.
-
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
-
I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
-
Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
-
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
-
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
-
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
-
What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
-
There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
-
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
-
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
-
I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
-
Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.
-
This is not the case of a pampered athlete. This is not a case or a situation where someone said, 'Hey, I played ball. You need to treat me differently.' He took it like a man.
-
I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun. You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.
-
Fear is the passion of slaves.
-
When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
-
After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.
-
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
