Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Small

• There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Smile

• Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Way
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Special

• There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Feeling
  • Close
  • Too

• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Me

• In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Death
  • Feeling
  • Brain

• My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Feeling
  • Lost
  • Brain

• I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Why
  • Feeling

• Often, I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we're all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Feeling
  • Bullying

• I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Feeling
  • Perfect
  • Singing

• I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Feeling

• Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill, Where pleasure itself cannot please; Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still Affects to be quite at its ease; For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank, The freest is first of the band, Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,Is a man with his heart in his hand!

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Children
  • Age

• I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Feeling
  • Roses
  • Coals