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
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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
Walter Jon Williams
Music can tear me up inside.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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
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
For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.
Jon Scieszka
In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
R. C. Sproul
Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
B. R. Hayden
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
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
I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.
Lisa Edelstein
I saw my entire life a waste, a desert of shame and unspeakable sorrow, and behind me, a suicided wife!
Christina Stead
When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
Dan Pink