Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • America
  • Hate

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Going

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Myself

• Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Men
  • Matter
  • Leave

• I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Time
  • Books
  • Bored

• I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Happy
  • Day

• Fashion is a completely international business.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Fashion

• Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Proud
  • Pleasure
  • Fact

• We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Police
  • Army
  • Mexican

• Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

  

  William Congreve
  • Experience
  • Married
  • Leisure

• Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.

  

  John Redwood
  • Political
  • Party
  • Charity

• That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment.

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Small
  • Control

• We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Charity
  • Sins
  • Multitude