Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.Henry Ward Beecher
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
Zach Braff -
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
Harold Pinter -
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Ted Nugent -
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Ian McDiarmid -
I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden -
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
Dani Shapiro -
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
Paddy Ashdown -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell -
I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
Haile Gebrselassie -
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
Ilya Yashin -
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
Dan Maffei -
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Adam Cohen
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Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young.
Coco Chanel -
In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.
J. J. Johnson -
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
Rachel Sklar -
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Henry Ward Beecher