Abraham Lincoln Quotes

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
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• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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  • Mean
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• I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!

  Mandy Bujold
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• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence
  • Go

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Giving
  • Hate

• There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Running
  • Look

• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • People
  • Done
  • Practice

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Idea

• I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Yesterday
  • Different Person

• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victory
  • Mistakes
  • Fail