Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

Abraham Lincoln

• Sorrow
• Agony
• Passing Of Time

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• What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Media

• You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Know

• Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • World
  • Great
  • Mind

• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Mind
  • Soul

• I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • May
  • Song
  • Night

• You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

  

  Kanye West
  • Power

• My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood
  • Different
  • History
  • Rest

• [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Moments
  • Doubt
  • See

• The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Food
  • Take

• I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.

  

  Rachel Hawkins
  • Life
  • Why
  • Facts

• Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.

  

  Charles Foster Johnson
  • Lost
  • Moral
  • Media

• Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

  

  Mike Thompson
  • Should
  • Missions
  • Diplomacy

• The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Sorrow
  • Protect
  • Weapon

• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Song
  • Sweet
  • Charity

• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sorrow
  • Agony
  • Passing Of Time