Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
Quotes to Explore
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
