Abraham Quotes

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

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

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

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

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.