Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Certainly it is not so easy to pay something as it is to pay nothing, but it is easier to pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger one. And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able than it is to pay it before we are able.

Abraham Lincoln

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• For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Effort

• There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Character
  • Movies

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Words

• I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Energy
  • Thoughts

• I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Camera
  • Treat

• We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Need
  • Back

• You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Done
  • Me
  • Cool

• Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Equal

• I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Action
  • Moving
  • Try

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
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• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• Piano is like drudgery.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Piano
  • Drudgery

• When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Rain

• O proud philanthropist, your hope is vainTo get by giving what you lost by gain.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Hope
  • Giving
  • Lost

• You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Should
  • Confident

• This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Suffering

• Certainly it is not so easy to pay something as it is to pay nothing, but it is easier to pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger one. And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able than it is to pay it before we are able.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Able
  • Pay
  • Sum