Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.
Abraham Lincoln
Quotes to Explore
A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
Chuck Berry
In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.
B. R. Hayden
The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.
Marvin J. Ashton
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.
Jack Roy
Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!
Tom Stoppard
After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.
George Clooney
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska
I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.
Sarah Jessica Parker
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
Barry Long
We are a big company — this doesn’t turn on a dime overnight. People are looking for every inconsistency because they don’t trust us. But we have been clear on our ambition. We will exit trade associations, where we simply no longer believe that they are consistent with what we do.
Bernard Looney
Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.
Ramin Djawadi