Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • Now
  • Standards

• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Small

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Rich
  • Wealth

• 'Naked! So I can see no pranks and ruses.'

  

  Peter Greenaway

• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Night
  • Wind
  • Sky

• To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Past
  • Party

• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Fight
  • Christ
  • Temptation

• They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Pay
  • Peanuts
  • Boo

• I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Move
  • Hated
  • Monsters

• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Gods
  • Medicine
  • Mirth