Henry Delafield Quotes

I think the most profound beauty is found in what our hearts love. ~ Julianne Donaldson

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. ~ Henry Rollins

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers! ~ Richard Henry Horne

New life plan: form a band called Cosmic Killjoy. ~ Katie Henry

Don't be afraid to let go of your past…
…it's only but a distraction to your present. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Catherine, who was extremely modest, had no desire to shine, and on most social occasions, as they are called, you would have found her lurking in the background. ~ Henry James

The disorientation and reorientation which comes with the initiation into any mystery is the most wonderful experience which is possible to have. ~ Henry Miller

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~ Philip Henry

Torture when inflicted on children
becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible
practice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon children
proves impossible to support. ~ Henry A. Giroux

Unearthing the truth was akin to creating it; something new and profound appeared where it hadn't been before. ~ Patti Callahan Henry

Relationship built on the foundation of lies is destined to fall". ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. ~ Henry Moore

Those that in good earnest set their faces heaven-ward, and will live godly in Christ Jesus, must expect to be set upon by Satan's temptations and terrors. ~ Matthew Henry

We were not born into this life knowing
that we were going to become
rich or poor, striving or with a celeb status, sick or healthy.
But one thing that I know is that
the human mind is a powerful tool to achieve success. No matter the circumstances,
greatness is when you push
yourself above the odds. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I ~ Henry David Thoreau

The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though it prevents my hoeing them, it is of far more worth than my hoeing. If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, would be good for me, too. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Without this original, pre-political, and pre-social community, no common project could ever come to exist. For, no project of this kind can be formed independently from its rootedness in the organic structure of desire and action. ~ Michel Henry

Make sure that you're nurturing your process. It's the only thing you can truly control, and it's the thing you'll always have regardless of where you end up. ~ Todd Henry

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ~ Henry Louis Gates

The privilege isn't given to everyone. ... You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. - Henry James, 1881 ~ Hampton Sides

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. ~ Henry James

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else. ~ Henry Moore

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws. ~ Henry Van Dyke

Blushing is the colour of virtue. ~ Matthew Henry

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself, in the days when not a single bit of evidence regarding the fossil ancestors of man was recognized, distinctly stated that none of the known anthropoid apes, much less any of the known monkeys, should be considered in any way as ancestral to the human stock. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn

Exemplary leaders lead by loyalty and not by authority". ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so. ~ Henry Thomas Hamblin

You think too much.'
'I suppose I do; but I can't help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches
a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown. ~ Henry James

Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Science is a passing fable that sets us free when it arrives and when it leaves. ~ Henry A. Murray

Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him
except instructors and their hapless students. ~ Henry Blake Fuller

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill. ~ Henry B. Eyring

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications. ~ Henry David Thoreau

He who destroys another person to succeed in life will have destruction awaiting him at the post of his success. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial. ~ Matthew Henry

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. ~ Henry David Thoreau

She was thinking of the girls who'd escaped with Pipkin, and hoped that they ran in the grass with bare feet, laughing in the sun. She wanted a promise of joy for someone, even if she could not have it for herself. ~ Christina Henry

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ~ Henry Ward Beecher