Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Journey
  • Limits
  • Reggae

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Angry
  • Two
  • Getting

• My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Gold

• I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Think

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Moving
  • Broken

• Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Death
  • Blue
  • Mysterious

• I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up

• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Wall

• Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

  

  Jens Voigt
  • Age
  • Feeling
  • Endurance

• That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band

• I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Courage

• I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.

  

  David Cameron
  • Up
  • Church
  • Jesus

• The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Career

• I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Work
  • Different
  • Home

• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Justice

• We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Women
  • Money
  • Single

• Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

• Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • Different
  • Reflection
  • Simplicity

• True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Simplicity
  • Elegance
  • Approaches