Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
-
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
-
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.
-
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
-
Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
-
I started cooking out of middle school depression.
-
Vegetarians in general don't like me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
-
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
-
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.
-
Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
-
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.
-
Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.
-
I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.
-
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
-
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
-
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
