William Ellery Channing Quotes

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing

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• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Your

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Truck
  • Seeing

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Many
  • Did
  • Follower

• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • Idea

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Wonder

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge
  • College

• Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

  

  Peter V. Brett
  • People
  • Worth
  • Determine

• Who is it that can tell me who I am?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Philosophical

• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Sister

• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • inspirational