Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Vitale

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Deepak Chopra

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Abdul Kalam

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Lao Tzu

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Fred Schneider

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Maude Adams

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Abigail Adams

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Walter Benjamin

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

C. L. R. James

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

David Antin

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

Kevin Powers

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

Larry Wall

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

Mahatma Gandhi

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

K. D. Lang

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

Robert Fulghum

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.