“ All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 622
“ Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living. ”
- Henry Ross Perot- Copy
- 925
“ Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. ”
- Sir Philip Sidney- Copy
- 2K
“ I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The Yankees won. Cleveland won. So we've got to pull this one out. ”
- David Ortiz- Copy
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“ Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail; We'll pull his plumes and take away his train, If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”
- Robert Service- Copy
- 990
“ As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. ”
- Akhenaton- Copy
- 746
“ We will consider any new resolutions that support the weapons inspectors' work. But we will not support any resolutions that directly or indirectly authorize using force against Iraq. ”
- Igor Ivanov- Copy
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“ You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you are sitting on you butt, and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time! ”
- Bob Moawad- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 2K
“ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. ”
- Jean Baptiste Colbert- Copy
- 2.5K
“ And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit — such are the just grounds for the regrets I have … ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
- 3.5K
“ At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ”
- Ellen Key- Copy
- 2K
“ Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm, not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms. ”
- Ding Ling- Copy
- 170
“ I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
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