Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • More
  • Would

• I've always been a narcissist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Been
  • Narcissist

• There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Words
  • Better
  • Silence

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Idea
  • Rich
  • Authentic

• Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
  • Value
  • Impact

• The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Home
  • Kids

• Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Character
  • You
  • Yourself

• Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Real
  • Like
  • Dreams

• I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Lost
  • Proud
  • Judge

• I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • War
  • Movies
  • Example

• I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Society

• Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Man
  • Individual
  • Become

• Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Nature
  • Man

• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Opportunity
  • Individual
  • Feminist

• My songwriting process is based on a formula: Color, tone, words. When I hear production, I initially identify the color that resonates with me. From there, I am able to translate the color into tone or emotion, which may depend on a number of things.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Process
  • Emotion
  • Songwriting

• As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Style
  • Environment
  • Artist

• No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Individual
  • Emotion
  • Form