Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

  

  Kaki King
  • Important
  • Universe
  • Moment

• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Motion

• By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Prosperity

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Universe

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Eyes

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistake

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Better

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • History
  • Universe

• I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Music
  • Family
  • Done

• We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act … Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Wish
  • Universe

• I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

  

  David Chase
  • Up
  • Space
  • Universe

• No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Universe
  • Happiness
  • Sad

• I believe it was Nat King Cole that my dad took me to see, and we were sitting in the dressing room, and I blurted out to him, 'Why didn't you sing this?' Referring to whatever song I had wanted to hear, and he told me he was tired of singing it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Song

• Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • Dream
  • Space
  • Destiny

• Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Women
  • Tennis

• What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Meant
  • Writings

• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Universe
  • Motion
  • Exchange