Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

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• The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Single
  • Powerful
  • Impossible

• I had no expectations of white people at all.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Expectations
  • White

• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • End
  • Him

• A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

  

  Gary Speed
  • People
  • Player
  • Golf

• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Child

• Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • World
  • America
  • Elements

• In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Girl
  • Progress

• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Success
  • Going

• I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Thought
  • Security
  • Sexuality

• I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Because
  • Page
  • Website

• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Help
  • Know
  • Daughter

• A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I've learned never say never.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Never
  • Say
  • Learned

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • New
  • Israel

• Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy, that feeling of bliss for no reason comes when you feel like your life matters because it matters to more than yourself.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Joy
  • Feelings

• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • Model
  • Young

• God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Waiting
  • Broken

• Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Born
  • Choose