Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Yahya Jammeh
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
Narendra Modi
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
Oscar Isaac
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
U Thant
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
Kat Graham
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt
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A human being is a deciding being.
Viktor E. Frankl
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
Anthony Trollope
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When it's all said and done, I'm held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there's nothing I would rather do than grant everybody's wishes. Unfortunately, I'm not in that position.
Eric Hyman
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
Wallace Stevens
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The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
Vladimir Lenin
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
Henry Ward Beecher
