Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Country
  • Profound
  • Greatest

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Scene

• When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Live
  • You
  • Civil Rights

• When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Women
  • Experience

• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • God
  • Always
  • Waiting

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Life
  • Age
  • Pretty

• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Simple
  • Blame
  • Last

• Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Bored

• Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Choices
  • Broken

• I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.

  

  Eric Betzig
  • People

• Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • World
  • Real
  • Childhood

• Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Girl
  • Nice

• The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • True

• Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression.

  

  Che Guevara
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

  

  Hassanal Bolkiah
  • Foreign skills

• [When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • She
  • Friends

• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Idea
  • Golf
  • Big

• What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Platform

• I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Platform
  • Arrangement
  • Bargain