Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

• Weakness
• Shame
• Attract
• Expose

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• Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Contribution

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • World
  • Desire
  • Beauty

• Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Software
  • Page

• The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Expensive
  • Too
  • Paperback

• Music can tear me up inside.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Me

• Not greatly gifted, not deeply beautiful, Madonna tells America that fame comes from wanting it badly enough. And everyone is terribly good at badly wanting things.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Good
  • America
  • Beautiful

• The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of the individual.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Up
  • Men
  • Heart

• Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

  

  Henry Major Tomlinson
  • Music
  • Sea
  • Looks

• First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • People
  • Live
  • High

• You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Book
  • Bills
  • Gasoline

• It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Women
  • Opinions
  • Booth

• I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Speak

• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
  • Love
  • You
  • Doing

• You get old, you slow down.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Old
  • Slow Down

• I think that as Christians we want to think Christianly, and that means that we want what the Bible says as a rule for life and living to impact every aspect of our life. The Bible informs us of such issues and we need to as Christians do what a first century church did and that is realize that we are not living to be politically correct, popular, or prosperous, but we 're living with eternity in mind.

  

  Hank Hanegraaff
  • Church
  • Bible
  • Eternity

• If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Weakness
  • Shame
  • Attract