Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
Quotes to Explore
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.
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I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.
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It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
