Many Quotes

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

I don't have many sad days.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.