Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Henry Ward Beecher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

Topics

GodBirdsFlyLongNothingRoof

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Andrei Tarkovsky

FaithCompromiseFightingCreateOwn

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

Anna Quindlen

DecisionWomanManSleepPrivacy

I had so much fun working with Akshay, especially in the action scenes.

Amy Jackson

FunActionWorkingSo Much FunMuch

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

Small ThingsPeopleWorldSmallLook

My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.

Michael Pollan

WorkTimeFoodPoliticsStartYou

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

Michael Stuhlbarg

SimplicityThinkDoingCameraYou

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

Don Rickles

My OwnEverythingHeadOwnBeen

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Derek Fisher

I AmAnythingPassengerAm

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

Cory Booker

ChangeDriveKnowWantWashington

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

Craig Brown

DinnerEveningBackTelevisionParty

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

Bonnie Langford

MyselfI AmHideMoreNowhereHalf

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Anna Torv

ScienceKindMoreScience Fiction

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