Lyman Beecher Quotes

#1. No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Lyman Beecher

#2. Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

Buzz Aldrin

#3. Eloquence is logic on fire.

Lyman Beecher

#4. You can never tell about a person by guessing ... that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Alice Hoffman

#5. [Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

Lyman Beecher

#6. Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

Dave Morris

#7. I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

Charlotte Rampling

#8. We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Lyman Beecher

#9. Don't be afraid," he whispered into my hair. "There's the two of us now.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Albert Camus

#11. More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.

T.F. Hodge

#12. My heart, thought Edward, my heart is broken.

Kate DiCamillo

#13. Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beecher

#14. I just can't read music.

Kate Smith

#15. I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Adriana Trigiani

#16. No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

Richard Curtis

#17. A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

Deborah Wiles

#18. My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.

Henry Steele Commager

#20. On Accidentally Eating Dog Treats
Snausages? I've been eating dog treats? Why the fuck would you put them on the counter where the rest of the food is? Fuck it, they're delicious. I will not be shamed by this.

Justin Halpern