Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

  

  Paracelsus
  • World
  • Man
  • Earth

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Problems

• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Childhood

• I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Week

• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Work
  • Money
  • Interesting

• I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Alcohol
  • I Wish

• I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

  

  Chevy Chase

• I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Catholic
  • Guilty

• White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Free
  • Catholic
  • Thank God Almighty

• There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Free
  • Ocean