Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
  • New York
  • Week

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Sports

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Potential
  • saw

• I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Pretty
  • Team
  • Know

• I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Real
  • She

• When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Home

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Present

• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Now

• The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Up
  • Music
  • Technology

• I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Men
  • Like
  • Player

• And when the physician said, 'Sir, you are an old man,' 'That happens,' replied Pausanias, 'because you never were my doctor.'

  

  Plutarch

• I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Society

• The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

  

  Christina Romer
  • People
  • Future
  • Stop

• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Gentleman