Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

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• The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Person
  • Cry
  • Only

• The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Rights
  • Second

• There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Place
  • Nothing
  • New York

• Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Decision

• So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Space

• Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Texas

• People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

  

  Jose Padilha
  • People
  • Church
  • Perspective

• You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

  

  An Wang
  • Important
  • Future
  • Single

• I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

  

  T. J. Stiles
  • Book

• Dreams never wear you down.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Dreams
  • Wear

• Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

  

  Charles II
  • Brother
  • Travels

• Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Phenomenon
  • Physical
  • Laziness

• Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Wit

• Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Pain

• MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Balance
  • Pressure
  • Recovery

• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Science

• It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Human being
  • Truths
  • Guidance

• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truths
  • Self-evident
  • Statesmen