Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
Nandan Nilekani
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
Barack Obama
I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
Fiona Apple
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett
Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.
Katee Sackhoff
I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
Paloma Faith
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
King James I
To be the best you must be able to handle the worst.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.
George Leef
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
Paul Goodman
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
Henry Ward Beecher