Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• 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.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Work
  • Dream

• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Know
  • Now
  • Journalism

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Age

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Past
  • Ride
  • Smell

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

  

  Halsey
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Artist

• If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wife
  • Marriage
  • Felt

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Death

• Women's tennis has been all over the place the last few years and when you throw in injuries, it's taken on even more of a wild-card dimension.

  

  Pam Shriver
  • Place
  • Tennis
  • Injuries

• Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Beginning
  • Circles

• At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, 'You gave hope to other balding men.' My new epitaph: 'Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.'

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Party

• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Conceited
  • Harmless