Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

Abraham Lincoln

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• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Business
  • You
  • Driving

• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Start
  • Strange
  • Research

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Know
  • Distance
  • Loyal

• My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Life
  • Person
  • Educated

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Party
  • Progress
  • Politics

• When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • Great
  • You

• The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Time
  • Children
  • Day

• The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to take it down. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.

  

  Bill Bellamy
  • Energy
  • Learn
  • Movies

• People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • People
  • Business

• I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Simple
  • Army

• I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Happy
  • Service
  • Army

• My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Army
  • Borrow
  • Respectfully