Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

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• There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Going

• At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Business
  • Man

• Good sports facilities are a blessing.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Blessing

• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Long
  • Church
  • Religion

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Moment

• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Future
  • New

• I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Spiritual

• I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Golf
  • Will

• I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Strong

• We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Light
  • Kitchen
  • Step

• What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Government
  • Wants
  • Presence

• Far more often than asking the question 'Is it true?' Children have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Children
  • History
  • True

• Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

  

  Solon
  • Advantage
  • Frame
  • Evident

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Interest
  • Genius
  • System