Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.Abraham Lincoln
Quotes to Explore
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
Naomi Judd -
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
Nathan Fillion -
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz -
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Zhang Yimou -
The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
Edgar Ramirez
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. Guest -
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone -
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph Marston -
Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.
Olly Murs -
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
Olga Korbut -
Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
Aristophanes -
Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
Carlos Beruff -
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
Bryan Adams -
Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
Yann Martel
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
John Locke Nazareth -
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Abraham Lincoln