Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

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• Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • High
  • Education

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Know
  • Conscience
  • Resistance

• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • More
  • Communism
  • Crusade

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • World
  • Real
  • Think

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Me
  • Team

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • History
  • Man
  • Winning

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Decade

• Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Teenager
  • Gym

• Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Reputation

• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Say
  • Everyone
  • Consensus

• I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Power

• And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men

• I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • People
  • Father
  • Musician

• Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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