Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Me
  • Place
  • Everything

• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stop

• I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Money
  • Song
  • Show

• In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Society

• Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.

  

  Daniel Adair Nickelback
  • Great
  • Me
  • Position

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Groups
  • Teenagers

• If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Kiss

• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • Done
  • Experience

• I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Person
  • Direct

• The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Team

• Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.

  

  Thomas Mitchell Morris
  • She
  • Faith
  • Looks

• I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Up
  • High
  • Movies

• Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

  

  Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • Men
  • Women

• I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World
  • Science
  • Writers

• To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Focus

• Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Sometimes
  • Artist
  • Order

• As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

  

  Ray Kroc
  • Growing
  • Green
  • Soon

• The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Country
  • Race

• I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Religious
  • Cat
  • Paint

• Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Americans
  • Lovers
  • Union