Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Did
  • Transportation

• Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • More
  • Nobody
  • Alumni

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Chance

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Life
  • Country
  • Right

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Family
  • Love

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Something
  • Maintain
  • Oppose

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Numbers

• When I was maybe like, under 10 years old, I was kind of like a maniac.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Kind
  • Years
  • Maniacs

• As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.

  

  Faith Sullivan

• Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Pain
  • Rest
  • Sky

• Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Years
  • Repentance
  • Reformation