Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Pride
  • Goofy
  • Embarrass

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Christmas

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Busy

• Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Hands

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
  • Write
  • Sketch

• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  

  Vash Young
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Fighting

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Work
  • Yoga

• Make our planet great again.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • Great

• I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Hair

• Descartes may have made a lot of mistakes, but he was right about this: you cannot doubt the existence of your own consciousness. That's the first feature of consciousness, it's real and irreducible. You cannot get rid of it by showing that it's an illusion in a way that you can with other standard illusions.

  

  John Searle
  • Real
  • May
  • Doubt

• Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Why
  • Waiting
  • King

• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • Milk
  • Cream