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

• 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

• I’m just me, and me is confusing.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Confusing

• Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

  

  John Ross Bowie
  • Humor
  • Deal
  • Stresses

• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  

  Plato
  • Evil
  • Price
  • Affairs

• There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Desire

• What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Art

• 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