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.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

Elliot Paul

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Michael Isikoff

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

Mort Kondracke

Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases.

Robert Scheer

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

Jon Carroll

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Ann Combs

Our view is the plans should be fully funded and that means 100 percent funded.

Mike Cooper

I think the staff is taking it hardest. Kids don't fully understand the importance of what's happening to them. I think reality is going to set in this week.

Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire: I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?

Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Russ Diamond

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

William Ackman

I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Richard Boucher

little pieces being picked out of a larger context.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Sam Yagan

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Rupert Murdoch

He was a man who you could truly say was larger than life.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

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,

Kelly Downard

I think the recommendation will probably be received favorably. We don't have one.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

John Lovelock

We don't think it was being shared for profit.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Dan Jiron

State wild and scenic designation was not considered.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Mary Parker

Our secretaries really know practically everyone who would need to be buzzed in, and if they didn't know them, they could communicate with them through this system, ... It's really state of the art.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Brian Clodi

I want to win the state championship. That's the ultimate goal.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Clint Burgess

I think we can get another state championship. I think that's reachable. That's our goal. The are a lot of obstacles, but I think we can do it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

Gilbert Arenas

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Rachel Tucker

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.