William Ellery Channing Quotes

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

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• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Mom
  • Working
  • Learned

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Taken
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • inspirational
  • Difficult
  • Emotion

• Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Littles
  • Rage
  • Fascism

• Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Success
  • Law

• If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount of wind power in this country, increased by tenfold the amount of solar power. We are producing as much oil and gas as we've ever produced.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Power
  • Space

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Fashion

• Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Men
  • Exercise

• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Different
  • Story

• Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

  

  Heraclitus
  • Understanding
  • Hear
  • Deaf

• Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Tongue
  • Whisky
  • Flavours

• The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Character
  • Separating
  • Insistence

• Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Humans

• Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Humans
  • Worthy
  • Volume