Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
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I have always been an active part of my community.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.
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One of the things that Jon Kabat-Zinnn talks about is that everyone wants to figure out how to live longer. But this actually is a very easy way for you to live longer, maybe you're not extending your life, but you are present and living more of the moments of your life.
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
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I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
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…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
