Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

• Courage
• Bravery
• Cowardice
• Public Opinion

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• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Light
  • Single

• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Glamourous

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Ignore
  • Times
  • Reflecting

• I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Child
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Write
  • Try
  • Just

• Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Water
  • Deep

• The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • She
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Hurt

• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Experience

• Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

  

  David Suzuki
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Children

• I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Light

• 'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Black

• I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Remarkable
  • Spectacular

• Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Great
  • Service

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Courage

• Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Courage
  • Slavery
  • Gentleman

• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Courage
  • Bravery
  • Cowardice