Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

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• A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

  

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• When I was younger, it was really difficult for me to get acting jobs, because you're a kid and you don't fit in the typical family.

  

  Crystal Lowe
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• I know a lot of people say, 'You're an athlete or actor... and you shouldn't speak up.' I think that makes no sense. No matter who you are, no matter what you do in the country, you're a part of our democracy, and if you have a voice, you need to use it.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
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• You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.

  

  Donald Glover
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• Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Architecture
  • Materials
  • Immature

• Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Mood

• We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Deep

• It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Player
  • Opinion
  • Choices

• I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Action
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• I've just kind of evolved in the way I think. I learned to just enjoy it. I feel really lucky to do what I do, be in the situation I'm in, and I love it. I'm going to have fun out there and trust my training and not worry, because I've figured out the worry doesn't help.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Way
  • Enjoy
  • Evolved

• The Black Eyed Peas sell thousands of seats in every country on the planet. You can't get nervous. We're all succeeding in all different parts of our careers. Just because I produce Nas and John Legend and Justin Timberlake doesn't mean it will change the dynamic of the Peas.

  

  will.i.am
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• I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Victory
  • Learned
  • Winner

• I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • People
  • Time
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• We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Answers
  • Prayers

• Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Heard
  • Prayers

• Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Death
  • Prayers

• Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Animal

• I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Prayers
  • Consolations
  • Christian People