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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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• 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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• Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

  

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• There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

  

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• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

  

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• The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

  

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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