Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Abraham Lincoln

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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • End
  • Just Because

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Personality
  • Human
  • Him

• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Step
  • Boss

• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Desire

• We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Want
  • Finding

• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Leadership

• If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Think
  • You
  • Teachers

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Yourself
  • Potential
  • Surgeon

• I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Game

• Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • You
  • Feel
  • Makeup

• I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Up
  • Character
  • Research

• Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Best
  • Sleep

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Love
  • Now
  • Breakfast

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

  

  Cory Lidle
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Mistake

• You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Space

• I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Know