Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Cahnman

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum is in my county board district. I'm not going around claiming credit for it.

Joe Klein

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.

Ken Ham

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

Carly Simon

I feel that if John Wilkes Booth hadn't shot Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln would have come through his pain and emerged like Livingston has. This album was made with the wisdom that comes from allowing yourself to be recklessly entwined with your agony and sorrow.

Larry Sabato

Kerry's great advantage, despite what some people say, is that the threshold is low. People who have decided to vote against Bush are looking for an acceptable candidate, not another Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Lawrence Small

I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

Christopher Reed

When they got into the hallway, they saw blood on the floor, so they knew the information they had was good, ... Abraham Gomez was in the basement apartment. They brought him outside.

Kevin Yoder

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

Mario Cuomo

My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.

Guido van Rossum

I think the real key to Python's platform independence is that it was conceived right from the start as only very loosely tied to Unix.

Julia London

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

Dick Cheney

It is hard to conceive that my life would have turned out this way had I not returned to my roots and the University of Wyoming,

Jeffrey Thomas

I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

Laurent Fabius

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Bertrand Russel

God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

Kim Stanley Robinson

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Fred Savage

I wouldn't say they are his worst nightmare. But I don't think he really would have been able to even conceive of a family like this.

Napoleon Hill

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Mirko Slomka

Lincoln played very well and showed what a quality player he is from the minute he got in.

Mario Cuomo

Lincoln isn't a man with ingrown toenails, he's an idea.

Joe Birkett

I don't know. She's at another Lincoln Day probably, another Lincoln Day dinner.

Susan Eisenhower

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.

Richard Norton Smith

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Phil Harris

They want us to run a Lincoln program on a Yugo budget,

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Diane Hochevar

It depresses me. It surprises me that the majority would not want to protect a viable unborn child.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Wayne Cornelius

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

Michael Stoops

The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Patrick Perry

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Richard Richards

I still think they ought to give it back,

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Damon Ristau

Our staff is incredible. Without them it wouldn't be possible to run this event.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tim Hibbitts

It is likely? No. Is it possible or plausible? Yes.

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Korey Rowe

It didn't seem possible and it took a long time to sink in.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Valentino Rossi

For sure, it's possible to win the championship. There's always more pressure than normal, but we try to win this race like we do in other races.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Kareem Carter

I won't be satisfied until I get a ring.

Ken Green

I think our team isn't satisfied with a section championship. We don't want our season to end yet.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

Greek proverb

He who is not satisfied with a little is not satisfied with allot.

Corey Brewer

We just have to keep winning now. At the end of the season, that's when we can tell you how satisfied we are.

Brian McKnight

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

Lynn Kimbrough

She wanted everyone to know she's satisfied with (the outcome).

Jill Young

We don't want to be satisfied with this. We're going to get back down to business.

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Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.

Laura Evans

I went through three different titles before I settled with this one,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Gary Forrest

He had a shaky start, then he really settled down and pitched well.

Milwaukee Brewers

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Pat Summitt

I thought she was tremendous when she settled down.

Sathya Baba

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

John Ortberg

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

Jacob Whitesides

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.