Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Something
  • Project

• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Support
  • Emotional
  • Child

• Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • High
  • Small

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Behind
  • Leading

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Theater

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Years
  • Period

• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Real
  • War
  • Political

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Competition
  • Stand
  • Speed

• He picked out this sentence in a New Yorker casual of mine: 'After dinner, the men moved into the living room,' and he wanted to know why I, or the editors, had put in the comma. I could explain that one all night. I wrote back that this particular comma was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

  

  James Thurber
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering.

  

  Mare Winningham
  • Time
  • Job
  • Mothering

• My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.

  

  Jose Andres
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

  

  John Sununu
  • Game

• Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Space
  • Distance
  • Human Mind