Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

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• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

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  • Good
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  • Change
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• What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

  

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  • Moving
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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

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• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
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• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

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  Edith Stein
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  • Desire

• We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
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  Reginald Maudling
  • God
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  George E. P. Box
  • Hands
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  George Eliot
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Justice
  • Means