Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

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• Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Today
  • Dreams
  • Questions

• The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Differences
  • Pie
  • Blur

• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Needs

• If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Up
  • Law
  • Service

• Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • People
  • Music
  • Comedy

• I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Real
  • Band

• The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Good

• I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Woman
  • Romantic

• Home is where you hang your hat.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Home

• I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Long
  • Mother

• I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Book

• It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

  

  Lou Gramm Foreigner

• The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

  

  Bob Wells
  • Age

• However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Power
  • Deep
  • Devil

• I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
  • Small

• We would not deny the mind; but merely remember that as the corrective of wrong thinking is right thinking, the corrective of all thinking is the body.

  

  Kenneth Burke
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Bodies have men as their masters, souls their vices and passions.

  

  Philo
  • Men

• Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

  

  George Packer
  • Character
  • Destiny

• Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Said

• My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Men
  • Important
  • Children

• Remorse turns us against ourselves.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Turns
  • Ourselves
  • Remorse

• I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bullet
  • Appeal
  • Free Men