Doris Kearns Goodwin Team Of Rivals Quotes

#1. Sweetheart, there's probably something you should know about me..." Hudson tightened his grip on my hand. "I'm no gentleman.

Cindi Madsen

#2. Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

Douglas Wilder

#3. I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.

Marlee Matlin

#4. All in all, the Song of Songs struck me as surprisingly liberating this time around.

Rachel Held Evans

#5. Only people are worth dying for.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#6. Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

David Levithan

#7. With my hands open and my eyes open
I just keep hoping that your heart opens.
It's not as easy as willing it all to be right
Gotta be more than hope that it's right.
I wanna hear you laugh like you really mean it
Collapse into me tired with joy.

Snow Patrol

#8. My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

Alan King

#9. I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic left in me.

Jeff VanderMeer

#10. Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

A.W. Tozer

#11. It soon became clear, however, that Abraham Lincoln would emerge the undisputed captain of this most unusual cabinet, truly a team of rivals. The powerful competitors who had originally disdained Lincoln became colleagues who helped him steer the country through its darkest days. Seward

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#12. I was ready to go with you. After everything you'd done. And you just ... left me. You have no idea what I had to go through. How hard I had to work to become ... human.

C.J. Roberts

#13. People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

Daniel H. Pink

#15. Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#16. I don't know Jiu-Jitsu, I don't know wrestling, all I know is how to fight. Period.

James Toney

#17. There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Stephen King

#18. When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.

Colum McCann

#19. For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.

Victor Hugo