Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • God
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Responsibility
  • Writer
  • Critical

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Thought
  • Beard

• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Deep

• 'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? 'You said nothing,' you tell me, 'and this cause was lost through you.' You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.

  

  Lawyer
  • Lost

• What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Men
  • Real

• There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Life
  • Rest

• I'm a massive 'Seinfeld' freak, and growing up, I always wanted to be Elaine - but I think everybody has a little bit of George in them, even if nobody wants to admit it.

  

  Margo Price
  • Up
  • Growing

• I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • American

• It took a few years before I realized there was life after football.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Life
  • Football

• At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • People
  • Movie

• Small things amuse small minds.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Small

• The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

  

  Akira Kurosawa
  • People
  • Children
  • May

• I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Achievement

• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Achievement
  • Human Soul
  • Alliance