Abraham Lincoln Quotes

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Abraham Lincoln

• Honest
• All Things
• Self-respect

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• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Down

• Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Dancing

• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • You
  • Change
  • Stubborn

• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Friend
  • Lonely
  • Meeting

• So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Women
  • Home
  • Perfect

• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Story
  • Mankind

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Want
  • Know
  • Cancer

• I love the French horn.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Love
  • I Love
  • French

• It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Real
  • You
  • Adventure

• I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• I love being on the road, I love playing.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Road
  • Playing
  • I Love

• This is a beautiful time of year with spring beginning to burst forth in many parts of the world, bringing all of its colors, scents, and cheerful sounds. The miracle of the changing seasons, with the reawakening and rebirth in nature, inspires feelings of love and reverence within us for God's marvelous, creative handiwork.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Afraid
  • Grandparents
  • Divorced

• Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Real
  • Nice

• I should just stop trying to control what's coming out of my mouth. I'm always going to keep what's important to me in mind and I completely understand considering that we're playing characters that are so coveted by so many people so I get why they want to know more about us. I just sort of have to not think about it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Song

• It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Honest
  • All Things
  • Self-respect