Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Church Service Quotes, Interesting Quotes

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

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I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

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Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

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For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

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I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.

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