Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
Zach LaVine
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Tayari Jones
You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
Adam Driver
To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
Mallory Jansen
If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
Sam Altman
I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
Stevie Wonder
Success is goals, everything else is commentary.
Brian Tracy
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
Oscar Wilde
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca the Younger
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.
Colleen McCullough
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Dorothea Dix
