Lyman Beecher Quotes

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

T.F. Hodge

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Deborah Wiles

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I just can't read music.

Kate Smith

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

Lyman Beecher

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

Kate DiCamillo

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

Lyman Beecher

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

Albert Camus

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

Diana Gabaldon

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

Lyman Beecher

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

Charlotte Rampling

#16. Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

Dave Morris

#17. [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

#18. 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

#19. Eloquence is logic on fire.

Lyman Beecher

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

Buzz Aldrin