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David Herbert Donald Quotes

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

David Herbert Donald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 1, 1920 - May 17, 2009

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Result Argument Person Kind Test Up

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

Jim Thome

Game You Feeling Situation Hard Get

I work well under pressure.

Joe Bonamassa

Work Pressure Well

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.

Robert Lepage

Day People Every Day Now Class See

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

Time Stupidity Society Will Nonsense

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

Rory Stewart

Border Strong Changes Two Whatever

Want to fire up a liberal? Dare to suggest that a nervous looking young Middle Eastern man standing in a TSA line to get on an airplane should be scrutinized.

Mike Gallagher

Fire Man Looking Airplane Young

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Truth Holder

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.

Julia Glass

Family Truth Myself Purpose Me View

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

Brian K. Vaughan

Life Balance Feel Comedy Life Is A

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

Boris Johnson

Style Moment Friends Authority Low

In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.

Bob Beckel

Lie Racism Ego Perfect Him Sexism

I remember when I was about 18, Sean Penn made a bet with me. He had just directed his first movie, and he's like, 'By the time you're 30, I will bet you $500 that you'll be sick of acting.' I'm still waiting to collect, because I'm not.

Winona Ryder

Time Waiting Me Sick Remember You