Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Giving
  • Mad
  • Name

• Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Courage

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • History
  • Black
  • Amazing

• The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Attention
  • Best
  • Face

• I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Career
  • Want
  • Television

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Scared

• If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Guy
  • City

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Free
  • Ending
  • Libertarian

• I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Myself

• In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Society

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

  

  Hans Frank
  • College
  • Party
  • Lawyer

• Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Stars
  • Two
  • Spheres

• My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Day

• We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • Avoid

• Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Fighting

• The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

  

  Gary Saul Morson
  • Person
  • Said
  • Quotation

• The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mistake
  • Person
  • Incapable