Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
Becky G -
I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
Ian Mcewan -
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
Laila Ali -
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. Wilson
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
Macaulay Culkin -
I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
Zooey Deschanel -
With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
Vanessa Bayer -
When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
Laura Marano -
When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.
Olga Kurylenko -
Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.
Jan Schakowsky
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Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
Stevie Wonder -
There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.
M. Russell Ballard -
Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
Harold Robbins -
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
Gaston Bachelard -
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
Harlan Stone -
To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.
Willie D
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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
A. R. Rahman -
Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.
C. S. Lewis -
My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.
Albert Einstein -
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.
Henry Ward Beecher