— Abraham Lincoln"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them."
Philosophy Quotes
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— Henry Ward Beecher"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
— George Carlin"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."
— Harry Connick, Jr."Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting."
— Ang Lee"I think I can work with any type of actor."
— J. K. Rowling"I don't think I am evangelical in my work."
— Lady Gaga"I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back."
— Rush Limbaugh"How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?"
— Stephen Hawking"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
— Hillary Clinton"I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now."
— Arthur Conan Doyle"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
— Robert Frost"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
— Chanakya"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
— Doris Lessing"I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women."
— Doris Lessing"I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement."
— Madeleine Albright"I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important."
— Madeleine Albright"I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy."
— Tori Amos"My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights."
— Christina Aguilera"I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic."
— Madeleine Albright"I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways."