Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Trying
  • School
  • Love

• I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Best
  • 10 anymore

• I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Good
  • Country
  • School

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Home
  • Creative
  • Prison

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Religion

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Art
  • Soul

• Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.

  

  Jack Welch
  • True
  • Black
  • Forever

• I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'

  

  David Harewood
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Challenge

• I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Time
  • Career
  • Pain

• I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Up
  • Important
  • War

• Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Effort
  • Broken

• If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Book

• Journalists love to show their compassion.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • Compassion
  • Journalists

• Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Today

• There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

  

  John R. Allen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Today

• I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

  

  Christa McAuliffe
  • World
  • History
  • Vision

• I'm a guy who doesn't like to be alone, and the joy that my friends pass me, with them being always by my side, is gigantic.

  

  Neymar
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Joy

• He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Destruction
  • Institution