Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.Henry Ward Beecher
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter -
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia -
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
Frances Farmer -
I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
Rafael dos Anjos
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A. E. Housman -
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian -
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
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.
Ian McShane -
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard -
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates -
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson -
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe -
The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
Flavor Flav -
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Harold MacMillan -
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
Sam Brownback -
If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
Leontyne Price -
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
Ville Valo HIM -
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
Bayard Rustin -
My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.
Woodrow Wilson -
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ward Beecher