Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
-
Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
-
You have to be yourself.
-
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
-
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
-
I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
-
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
-
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
-
I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
-
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
-
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
-
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
-
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
-
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
-
I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
-
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
-
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
-
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
-
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
-
The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.
-
You live up - or down - to your expectations.
-
I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.
-
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
