Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Progress
  • Very
  • Guys

• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Running
  • Down
  • Active

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • Action
  • Beginning

• We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Page

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • You

• A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Law
  • Horse
  • Lawyer

• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Black
  • Everything
  • Ships

• I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• We men are wretched things.

  

  Homer
  • Men
  • Wretched

• The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

  

  Reginald Maudling
  • Influence
  • Conservative
  • Bring

• Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, bothHis strong hands hanging down, and all with frothHis cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breathSpent to all use, and down he sunk to death.The sea had soaked his heart through; all his veinsHis toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains.Dead weary was he.

  

  George Chapman
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Strong

• When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Conservative
  • Funeral