Abraham Lincoln Quotes

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Death
  • Name
  • Has

• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Black
  • Greatest
  • Feminism

• When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Games
  • Nobody

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Types

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Voice

• So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Music
  • Film
  • Something

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Success
  • Luck

• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

  

  Orson Welles
  • Genius
  • Denies

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• She Clinton has a terrible record as secretary of state. I mean, she's literally created ISIS. If you look at her, between her and Obama, they're the ones - we have this big ISIS problem they created with their bad policies and their bad thinking.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Bad

• Whenever I have time and am compelled to watch anything, it's usually something I'm not in!

  

  Doug Hutchison
  • Time

• Unfortunately there's nothing, really, that can be done that's going to affect energy prices or gasoline prices in the very short run.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Done
  • Energy
  • Affect

• I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

  

  David Duke
  • Future
  • Crowds
  • Riots

• With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Prediction