Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Abraham Lincoln
Quotes to Explore
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
Hannah Kent
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
Naftali Bennett
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
Imelda Marcos
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Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.
Craig Owens
Chiodos
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Nadine Gordimer
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You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.
Luke Bracey
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As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms.
J. G. A. Pocock
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Abraham Lincoln
