Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

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• Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

  

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• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

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• At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the radio.

  

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• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

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• Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

  

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• Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

  

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• We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

  

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• Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the opening of the market - at home and around the world - and on getting back into a business frame of mind after the weekend.

  

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• Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

  

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• I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.

  

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• If character is destiny, the good are damned.

  

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• Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

  

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• One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Attempt
  • Calculate
  • Mathematically