Abraham Lincoln Quotes

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln

• Lawyer
• Laughed
• Many Times

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• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Love
  • Why
  • Television

• I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Sport
  • Sounds

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Know
  • Slow

• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feet

• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Live
  • Done
  • Help

• You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Healthy
  • Diet

• I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Love

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humor
  • Laughter
  • Days

• I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Year
  • Champion

• Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Men
  • Heart
  • History

• Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Death
  • Winter

• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

• Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

  

  Edward VIII
  • King

• Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Death

• You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Lawyer
  • Motivated
  • Recovery

• There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• When Bill Clinton was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Running
  • President
  • Forget

• I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Time
  • World
  • Rose

• The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Time
  • Long
  • Moments

• Closeout games are actually kind of easy.

  

  Andrew Bynum
  • Easy
  • Games
  • Closeout

• The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

  

  Nicolas Maduro
  • Stability
  • Ideals
  • Contribute

• How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Lawyer
  • Laughed
  • Many Times