William Ellery Channing Quotes

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

William Ellery Channing

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
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• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
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• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
  • You
  • Me
  • Get

• We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
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• Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

  

  Patrick McHenry
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• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
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• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  

  Vince Gill
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• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Power
  • Silly
  • Caring

• There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • Creation

• I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Time
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  • Period

• I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Decisions
  • Scene
  • Base

• Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Power
  • Wise