Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama -
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Carl Lewis -
There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
Ted Nugent -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
Eartha Kitt -
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
Gary Johnson
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin -
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson -
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas -
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
Waris Dirie -
We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
Wendy Kopp -
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
Ted Danson -
I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.
Richard Simmons -
These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
Ben Harper -
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
Donald Miller -
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Elon Musk -
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold -
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
Henry Ward Beecher