Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Cancer

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Women
  • Country
  • Reality

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Unknown
  • Flesh
  • Surface

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • You
  • Dull

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Start
  • Trouble

• 'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Name

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Done
  • Stop

• In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Hurt

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Time
  • Real
  • Control

• I am a man in a hurry.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Hurry

• He saw a tree in a backyard, its branches tortured among electric wires and clotheslines, its leaves dry and shriveled before they were fully out. Low in the sky, dark clouds heralded the storm.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Dark
  • Tree
  • Sky

• Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

  

  Dawn French
  • Money
  • Theatre
  • Rocky

• Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

  

  Kanye West
  • Professional
  • Garden
  • Athlete

• Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Character
  • Tree
  • Shadow