Dislistino Quotes & Sayings

How could Lincoln reply to such comments, without offending abolitionists or frightening slave-owning Unionists from the Upper South? Placating words were likewise out of the question. A plea from Virginia suggesting Lincoln need do no more than assure Southerners they had the right to bring their property into all American territories reminded the dubious president-elect of an apt story. It concerned a little girl who begged her mother to let her play outside. The mother repeatedly said no, the child persisted, and the mother finally lost patience and gave her a whipping, "upon which," Lincoln chortled, "the girl exclaimed: 'Now, Ma. I can certainly run out. — Harold Holzer

Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside! — Harsha Bhogle

I don't think I have achieved anything that I can really be proud of. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language. — Jerry Saltz

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying. — Angela Lansbury

Imitation limits imaginations — Bernard Kelvin Clive

If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' " " 'And if the Truth is hidden?' " Toranaga said. " 'It's already clear,' " Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha. — James Clavell

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks. — Ron Brackin