Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• Frozen
• Warmth
• Trickle
• Glaciers

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• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Laugh

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• There's no one who has been living for centuries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Living
  • Been
  • Centuries

• When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Film
  • Look
  • Finish

• I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

  

  Wendy Cope
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Day
  • Play
  • Guitar

• In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Vice
  • Vice versa

• I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Believe
  • You
  • Attention

• Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Years

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Chicago
  • Exchange

• Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case...

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Reasons
  • Case
  • Merits

• I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

  

  Mike Wallace
  • News
  • Legend
  • Improve

• None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

  

  Michael Huffington
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes

• We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • World
  • Important
  • Business

• What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Quality

• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Mountains
  • Frozen
  • Warmth