Top 1200 Lincoln Center Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

USTA helps me out a lot, the Tennis Center. I can't thank them enough.

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.

A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don't think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, Silas Phelps, Peter Wilks... now those last two were characters from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You didn't even notice, did you?

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle.

I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in Lincoln in the Bardo]. It's like if you're an actor and you're always overacting, well, you're a bad actor. But if you're an actor who subdues yourself to the extent that's necessary, then you're really acting.

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center.

Drake brought me out at the O2 in London and Barclays Center, and I'm on 'More Life.'

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right?

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

I do play in a spread offense and in order to translate into the NFL, I'll have to take snaps under center.

I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

I love to have a very bright center of my face. I learned that on 'Jessie'... it looks great on camera.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

A self-driving car will have 200-plus CPUs. That's a data center on wheels.

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day.

I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.

I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.

How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.