William Ellery Channing Quotes
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.William Ellery Channing
Quotes to Explore
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
Bai Ling -
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
Aaron Sorkin -
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
Caleb Cushing -
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
Victoria Pendleton
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
Dan Quinn -
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James -
I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
Oksana Baiul -
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo -
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The nature of things is dharma.
Mahavira
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
Harold Hamm -
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking -
Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett -
Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
Q-Tip -
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
Jack Kingston
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I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.
Zeljko Ivanek -
A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.
Jeff Lemire -
The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'
Aesop -
My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
Bob Schieffer -
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing