Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
Quotes to Explore
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
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I think without the harsh critics, I would maybe have not made progress. From BloodRayne on, I spent more time and money on the development.
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I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.
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I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.
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See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
