Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

Abraham Lincoln

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Abraham Lincoln

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Abraham Lincoln

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Abraham Lincoln

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

The place we are in took at a long time to get to and it will take a long time to get out.

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Amanda Hocking

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

Laura Fraser

I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

Kate McKinnon

I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

Kym Whitley

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

Julia Roberts

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.

Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

John Ridley

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

Lee Majors

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.

Anne Sullivan

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Anne Sullivan

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Joseph Joubert

Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.

Aimee McPherson

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world