Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert H. Connelly

Riders that spy the most Lincoln sites will be eligible for a prize drawing. Participants will win either way because they'll have the opportunity to ride where Abraham Lincoln once walked.

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.

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.

Deepa Mehta

Honestly it is of no consequence to me. My film has some of the loveliest performances I have seen. John Abraham and Lisa Ray will be right up there with the hottest Hollywood men and women after Water.

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.

Tim Vincent

My brother, Abraham Jr., went back to the grave after Rita hit. The grave was not damaged, and (he) found the bouquet about two feet away from Dad's head stone. He put the bouquet back in place and put another can of beer and a cigarette by his grave, for Dad loved his beer and cigarettes. We're so thankful our father's grave is intact.

Meir Soloveichik

There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.

Howard Dean

Today, we heard him try to walk away from the USS Abraham Lincoln 'end of major combat operations' announcement, absurdly claiming that the White House was not responsible for the 'Mission Accomplished' banner that decorated the flight deck,

Henry Villard

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Brad Clark

The building has been vacant for so long that it's almost like starting from scratch.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

David Hendler

The brokers have been almost like the old Internet stocks. The stocks have been on a huge ride and they're starting to cool off and come back to reality.

Rocky Smith

The business is doing really well. Each semester my customer base almost doubles.

Peter Capaldi

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

Scott Elarton

The big thing is, there is no tension on this team. I've been with some (Houston) clubs going down the stretch in a playoff race, and teams get on edge. On this club, everyone is so relaxed it's almost like they don't care. But the results say otherwise.

Carrie Barker

The Big Ten is almost like restarting the season again. Once the Big Ten starts, it's like starting from scratch. The Big Ten is like a different life.

Tom Orlich

At this time of the year everybody is ready for almost anything.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Wally Schirra

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

David Wu

The business of America must be more than just business, and engagement must be through more than just the cash register... Real engagement sees the Chinese people as real people, people like us, people with aspirations, with hopes, people who aspire to walk the path of freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Richard Grimes

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Richard Yamarone

August isn't exactly a barnburner for job creation. It didn't appear as if corporate America flicked on the hiring switch last month. I think there were a lot of problems plaguing big business. So I don't think we're going to get a big jobs number.

James Glassman

Bankruptcy has a negative connotation to many people, but it's an important part of the streamlining of America. For companies that have gotten themselves down a dead-end alley, it's a way to back up and rethink.

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Greg Drescher

You often hear about ingredients being found, whether it is corn or ancient grains, but it is not too often that you hear about something as complex as noodles.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

James Marsters

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.

Al Goldman

Earnings are ancient history. The first quarter is under our belt. The market is now looking to the fourth quarter and ahead.

Raymond Moody

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Rick Riordan

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

Barry Unsworth

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Nick Saban

I've always believed the players I coach can learn a lot from the success of their predecessors, and that's especially true here in Miami.

Robbie Tobeck

I've always believed the good teams win the close games,

David Elson

I've always believed that you can't worry about injuries, especially this time of year. I choose to see the positives. It's just part of the process of having a physical spring practice, which we're always gonna do. It's helping develop our depth is how I look at it.

Simon Gagne

I've always believed that when you play here, the best thing to do is be honest and up front. You'll never see me sneaking out the back door.

Roger Little

I've always believed that solar is a freight train that can't be stopped, ... This year, there's a US$10 billion worldwide market for systems.

Andrew Bailey

I've always believed that our style of relevant, fast-paced and up-to-date newscasts provides something different in a busy news marketplace. Being the first commercial UK radio station to launch news on-demand helps us take this relationship with our listeners to another level.

Andrew Bailey

I've always believed that our style of relevant, fast-paced and up-to-date newscasts provides something different in a busy news marketplace. Being the first commercial UK radio station to launch news on-demand helps us take this relationship with our listeners to another level.

Tim Jones

Radio on the Internet is yet another world-shrinking example of what communications analysts call "death of distance.

Gerri Detweiler

Read the material carefully. If you find it's unfavorable, it's worth a phone call to issuers to tell them you're going to leave if they can't match the old terms.

Fieldin Culbreth

Randy immediately came off the mound and had some choice words to say. I told him to knock it off and get back on the mound. He screamed again, an expletive and, 'Just call it a strike.' And at that point he also screamed out, 'And the pitch to Wells was an expletive strike as well.' And at that point, I ejected him.

Tracey Tipton

Really, in her eyes, she's got some great schools to choose from and I don't really think she can go wrong with any of them and I just think that obviously she's got a piece of mind of what she wants to do or otherwise she wouldn't want to call the press conference. I think she's ready to make a decision and move on and not feel like she's misleading anyone.

Cris Collinsworth

Probably more than anything else, he needs a wife, honestly, ... If he had a wife, the minute he takes after Donovan McNabb, his wife would have said, 'What are you doing? Pick up the telephone and call him and apologize. You're so out of line.'

Martin Parr

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

Richard Moore

People think that ambulances show up automatically. But we're the ones who call and send them.

David Norris

People think our call center is in India because of the ethnic sound of a rep's voice, but it's in Canada.

Steve Wiseley

Our team was great during the summer. People call it the Lake Washington nation because we all hangout together and workout.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Tom Downs

Florence was chosen for several reasons, including the availability of a skilled labor market, grant and tax incentives, and its established transportation resources.

Anne Lamott

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

M. Wolfe

Every time a gay or lesbian person is chosen as a leader by their non-gay and lesbian peers, I think it's a step forward for our community.

Mark Butler

Yes, we would have chosen to wait. We have a strict schedule.

Mark Knox

While we are concerned that our established HD DVD partner has chosen to make this announcement at this time, we remain supremely confident in the superiority of the HD DVD format.

Paul Kowalczyk

Every conference has the option of doing it how they see fit. What we've chosen to do is split it between the teams.

Peter Lindbergh

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Michele Moore

There had been countless overtures prior to this particular publisher. But others finally convinced him that Dell was at a strategic point in the business, and this would be an opportunity to further the brand. Personally, he wouldn't have chosen to do it. It was difficult for him. He is singularly focused on the success of the business.

Russell M. Nelson

Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.

Thomas Hobbes

A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

Thomas Hobbes

Covenants without swords are but words.

George Bernard Shaw

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Jason Jennings

Seeing we have a relatively young staff and young team, hopefully I can get us off to a good start and take some of the leadership role. I am not a big vocal guy, never have been. I like to lead by example. I would like to give us a good example to go by.

Larry Wilcox

This is an example of the possible outcome of extreme prejudice and racism.

Stan Chesley

This is an example of negotiating and hard bargaining.

William Ohlemeyer

This is another example of the jury ignoring the law and doing what they are not supposed to do,

John Tory

This is another example of a government that has lost all respect for taxpayers.

Ken Kramer

This is the first example I can think of that gives the natural state of the coastline back to the people, rather than taking it away.

Dennis Brooks

The United Way organizations are an example of hope in what they provide.

Paul McAuley

The mobile wireless network also gives clinicians a number of other tools, for example we have a virtual medical library on-line in partnership with Queen's University.

Sean Jones

Young's just the latest example of what's been going on for decades. This is the time of year when we look for things you can't do, not what you can do.

Sorin Cerin

The soul is the quill with which God wrote his Words of Genesis.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Adoniram Judson

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

Cam Newton

I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

Joseph Gatt

I've only ever played 'God of War' while we were shooting it. I've seen a lot of the videos, but while we were shooting 'God of War,' they had a green room for the actors to hang out in, and they always had the newest game on the big screen. So we'd sit there playing 'God of War' to get us into the mood.

Ellsworth Kelly

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

Frank Darabont

I should thank God or somebody for inventing Michael Clarke Duncan,

Ricardo Montalban

I shot my leg during a rehearsal! Thank God they were blanks.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Klaus Toepfer

These are ... sites that have a history of contamination, all of which are linked to massive neglect.

Larry Babits

This is a way to keep history alive.

Francis Cheung

This is a real landmark in the history of China's telecom industry,

Lamar Butler

This is history we're living in right now. Unfortunately, it had to come to an end.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Kinky Friedman

This is a true moment in history. When we get on the ballot, we'll be making history.

Tara Tattersall

This is a team that wants to leave its mark on the program and make significant additions to the history of Rosary softball.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

Damon Dash

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

Jessie Miller

She is what inspired me. I was so angry.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Chris Tucker

You just inspired me and my whole generation,

Wayne Dyer

When you're inspired you attract abundance.

Elaine Stritch

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Phoebe Cates

You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

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.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.