Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Abraham Lincoln

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Together

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Community
  • View

• 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

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Parents
  • Cuban

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Different
  • Style
  • Value

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • Way
  • Feel

• Spend 10% of the project budget making sure you understand problem, the key technologies involved, and have looked at all of the options before you dive into the detailed design.

  

  Bruce Pittman
  • Design

• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Goodness
  • Root

• One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Reason
  • Balance