Abraham Lincoln Quotes

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Abraham Lincoln

• Labor
• Majority
• Productive
• No Country

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Long
  • Alone

• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • God
  • Future

• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Impossible

• The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Food
  • Creative
  • Fresh

• God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • God
  • Energy

• Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Intelligent

• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Time
  • Man
  • Makeup

• I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • School
  • Done

• Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • God
  • Tired

• Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • Work
  • Men
  • inspirational

• And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • History
  • Interesting

• The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.

  

  Kalidasa
  • She
  • Song
  • Moving

• Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC. pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB

  

  Willie Geist
  • Party
  • Sometimes
  • Tree

• I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.

  

  George Michael
  • America
  • England
  • Majority

• I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Sister
  • Being
  • Big

• No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Labor
  • Majority
  • Productive