Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
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A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.
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I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
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Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
