Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Value
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Power
  • Want

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Mean
  • Everything
  • Computers

• The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • You
  • Classy

• I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Reading

• I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • God
  • Death

• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • God

• We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Energy
  • Education
  • Player

• I'm always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Born
  • Mistakes
  • Afraid

• Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Answer

• The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Balance

• It only takes sparks to light a fire

  

  Carrie Fletcher
  • Fire
  • Sparks

• Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Facts
  • Afraid
  • Ghosts