Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Quotes to Explore
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
-
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
-
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
-
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
-
Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
-
In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
-
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
-
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
-
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
-
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
-
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
-
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
-
I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
-
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
-
Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
-
One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
-
It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
-
I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.
-
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.
-
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
-
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
-
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
-
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
