Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Abraham Lincoln

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

Abraham Lincoln

Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

Abraham Lincoln

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

Abraham Lincoln

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Abraham Lincoln

My God! My God! What will the country say?

Abraham Lincoln

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

Abraham Lincoln

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Abraham Lincoln

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...

Abraham Lincoln

Public opinion in this country is everything.

We want to make sure that people who work in Montgomery County have a better shot at living in Montgomery County.

Mark Thompson

The plant really touched the life of virtually every person in the country.

There are other county officials who are looking at this, who have called me.

John Sununu

There are other countries around the world that the president identified as posing a potential threat to the U.S.-North Korea, Iran.

Lee Womack

There are people in this genre who are extremely territorial. I can't quite put my finger on who that group is made up of. But it's not the purists. I'm a purist. I'm a die-hard country music person.

Sue Grafton

People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

Kyrie Irving

I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

Johnny Isakson

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

She's one of the players I could always count on. She understands what it means to play soccer in this program. She appreciated the opportunity.

She's leaving a legacy of one of the outstanding programs in the country that we hope to continue.

Old Mill's a tough team with their height, their length and their athleticism. After the county championship game, we wanted to get another shot at them and here we are. They won the first game, we won the second one, they won the third one and we'll see what happens in the fourth one.

Robert Zoellick

Some countries will now need to decide whether they want to make a point, or whether they want to make progress,

Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.

Simone can play just about any position. She?s so versatile. The one thing she?s been able to do throughout is hit the ball. You can count on that.

(Silver Creek is) very similar to Pueblo County. They're just as big as County and they have guards who are really active. Playing County three times this year should really help. I don't want to say that's a measuring stick, but at least it should prepare us for them.

Signs are that the enrollment is shrinking. The February student count was down 23 students from the September count.

Shannon Sharpe

Short of them telling me there's something seriously wrong, I plan to be out there on Sunday, because I know that my teammates are counting on me to be out there,

She called Nash County communications to see if it was her brother.

She did a fantastic job not only for herself, but for the whole country in making people feel good, in making people feel worthwhile.

She has represented our country and the sport of figure skating so well for 12 years.

She has represented her club, state and country with enormous pride over the years, and her genuine love and passion for the game is quite inspirational.

She had been all over the country and Europe. But her most enjoyable time was visiting her family in Kentucky.