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

• 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

• Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • People
  • Live

• Members of the Senate are considering a tax on cosmetic surgery. When they brought it up, you should have seen the look that Nancy Pelosi's face tried to make.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Tax
  • Senate

• But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Country
  • Lives
  • Enterprise

• The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Hippie
  • Motive
  • Rebellion

• Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Career

• What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Soul
  • Courage
  • Hero

• 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