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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• Earth
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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
  • Movies
  • Broken

• 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

• We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Earth

• They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • Brother

• When someone steals your goat, my son, it is roasted and eaten and you forget it. When someone steals your corn, it is ground into meal and eaten and you forget it. But when someone steals your land, it is always there and you can never forget it.

  

  Barbara Wood
  • Forget
  • Land
  • Meal

• She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Hands

• I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

  

  Chad Michael Murray
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• 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