Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.Abraham Lincoln
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
Ram Charan -
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
Nana Mouskouri -
Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
Adam Michnik -
I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
T. J. Perkins -
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman -
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
Viggo Mortensen
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
Maggie Hassan -
One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
Cameron Dallas -
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
Vince Staples -
I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
Washed Out -
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
Beck Bennett
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
Jack Keane -
Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
Said Nursi -
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski -
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
Carl von Clausewitz -
Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
Zeljko Ivanek -
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
Iqbal Quadir -
I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control.
Nathaniel Fick -
You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
Sarah Addison Allen -
My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
Kate Christensen -
Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
Norman Vincent Peale -
I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
Abraham Lincoln