Abraham Lincoln Quotes

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Abraham Lincoln

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• The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Success
  • Attention

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • May
  • Door

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Mother
  • Sad
  • Cancer

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Air

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • Best
  • Marriage

• This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Time
  • Black
  • Style

• It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Secret
  • Wear

• One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Long
  • Book
  • Always

• If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Adventure

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Control
  • Struggle

• I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Law
  • Comedy

• I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

  

  Allan Guthrie
  • Imagination
  • Serious

• It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Happy
  • Dream

• We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Happy
  • Terrible