Abraham Lincoln
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. computer repair new york
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
It's not about finding the right man, it's about being the right woman.
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
God is a verb.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to…
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Love's always a little lonely in the beginning.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a…
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power to the man who knows how.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I love Thanksgiving. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice…
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it…
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Love is repaid by love alone!
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he…
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS…
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
How can those who scorn God revere men?
Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Without losers, where would the winners be?
Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision,…
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do…
The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind…