William Ellery Channing Quotes

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

William Ellery Channing

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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

  

  Carl Safina
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• I believe that first impressions are very important.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Believe
  • Important

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Believe
  • Regret

• Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Done
  • City
  • Garden

• I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Person

• Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Fashion

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Audience

• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Use

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Done
  • Broken
  • Movies

• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Looking

• I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Game

• I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Police
  • Safety

• 'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Done
  • Song
  • Single

• Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • You
  • Know
  • Support

• We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Time
  • Eyes

• Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

  

  Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman

• Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Earth