Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
Barack Obama -
The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
Naomi Klein -
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
Naftali Bennett -
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
Valerie June -
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
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A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
Mandy Moore -
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
Imtiaz Ali -
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
E. O. Wilson -
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams -
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
Ralph Merkle -
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
Dan Millman
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
Barry Bonds -
Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.
Uday Kotak -
BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.
Sam Brownback -
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
Nancy Friday -
I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
Samantha Shannon -
I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
Marc Almond Soft Cell
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Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?
Chris Vance -
In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.
Leighton Meester -
I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.
Cameron Mathison -
Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a live well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.
David Rakoff -
Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
Dennis Hastert -
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
Henry Ward Beecher