Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Always
  • Win

• Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Want
  • Government
  • Interest

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Mind
  • Language

• For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Sometimes
  • Forever
  • Service

• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Greatness
  • Her

• You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Know
  • Doing

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • You
  • Doing

• We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Symbols
  • Inhabit

• TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Beautiful
  • TV
  • Ugliness

• A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Fish

• I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Want
  • Chill

• All records are not made to be broken.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Broken
  • Made
  • Records

• You need to have time to really hear God.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Time
  • God
  • Need

• We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Movie
  • Now
  • Looking

• Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Life
  • Communication

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Believe
  • May
  • Effort

• For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Result
  • Effect

• I don't mind being recognised, as long as people are nice. I do like meeting people; it's just that some people are a bit disrespectful... Sometimes it's like, I'm having a roast dinner, and someone's taking a picture of me. I don't mind taking pictures, but just ask. Otherwise, it's a bit weird.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Pictures

• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Pictures
  • Effect
  • Merit