Quotes About Mary Todd Lincoln

#1. You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena)
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been

Timothy Snyder

#3. Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#4. I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor

Mary Todd

#5. I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#6. Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#7. No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#8. You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

Rand Paul

#9. If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#10. It's a wonder to be alive. If you don't understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?

Liu Cixin

#11. Every time I visit, he sends me off to the Chicken Ranch to fetch dinner. Deep fried chicken, greasy potatoes, BBQ sauce. I can feel my arteries clogging just thinking about

Nick Vulich

#12. Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Mary Todd Lincoln

#13. Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#14. I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

Carol Gilligan

#15. Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#16. And yet - when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds one-self pressing, in great pain, through a maze of false signals and abruptly locking doors.

James Baldwin

#17. The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

Edward Hirsch

#18. I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

Yuri Milner

#19. My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#20. My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#21. Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Vladimir Lenin

#22. Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

Vladimir Putin

#23. In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#24. I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#25. Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

Sally Field

#26. Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#27. Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time he spoke. He

Umberto Eco

#28. I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#29. What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

Anson Dorrance

#30. No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Mary Todd Lincoln