Abraham Lincoln Quotes

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Look

• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Live
  • True
  • Food

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Change

• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Fun

• You don’t look so good.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Good

• We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Mind

• I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Present

• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • My Life
  • Plant