William Ellery Channing Quotes

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

William Ellery Channing

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Promise
  • Something

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Real
  • Debate

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Black
  • Too Much

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Experience
  • History
  • Holocaust

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • May
  • Found

• Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'

  

  Eli Pariser
  • People
  • Great
  • Job

• They come to the arena to watch gladiators. Do they want to see a bunch of guys choking up on the bat against pitchers throwing 82 miles an hour or do they want to see the ball go 500 feet? They want to see warriors.

  

  Ken Caminiti
  • Up
  • Arena
  • Warriors

• I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Life
  • I Love
  • Enemies

• Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Eternity
  • Earnestness

• I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Eternity