Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Compromise

• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Love
  • Nature

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Feel
  • Nurse
  • Secretary

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Success
  • Start
  • Scared

• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Style
  • Care

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Oppression

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Watching

• The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • People
  • World
  • Waiting

• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • World
  • Best