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

• All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Ideas
  • Intuitions

• They said I won by a landslide, which blew me away.

  

  Kevin Talley Chimaira
  • Blew
  • Landslide

• What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Way
  • Truths
  • Advanced

• Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no greater motivation for dealing with sin in our lives than the realization of these two glorious truths of the gospel.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Gospel
  • Sins
  • Truths

• 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