Abraham Lincoln Quotes

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

Abraham Lincoln

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• There is something about poverty that smells like death.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Death
  • Like
  • Poverty

• Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Life
  • Grateful
  • Diabetes

• Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Poverty

• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Used
  • Photograph

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Commitment

• I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Team

• One is born to be a great dancer.

  

  George Balanchine
  • Great

• Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Feels
  • Expectations

• That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Purpose
  • Vision
  • Concentration

• Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Remember
  • Dream
  • Pushing

• The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Soul

• the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Mean
  • Ends
  • Justify

• Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • She
  • Lady Gaga

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

  

  Theresa May
  • Country
  • Debate
  • Parliament

• While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.

  

  Allan F. Packer
  • Experience
  • Answers
  • Testimonies

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Works
  • Divine
  • Slaves

• We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Permanent
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