Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Long
  • Movie

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
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• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
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• Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

  

  Kate Williams
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  • Wishes

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Action

• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Space

• The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Growth

• I love using hummus as centerpiece and then making different containers of vegetables for fun dipping.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Different
  • Fun

• I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.

  

  Gregg Allman

• I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Life
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• I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Believe
  • Why
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• The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

  

  George Best
  • Fear

• Rolling Stone: What was your headspace at the time of Superunknown? A lot of the lyrics are dark.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Lyrics

• It is far better to eat moderate amounts of food in all of the food ranges, and to consume smaller portions more often. I realize that your social mores also dictate your eating habits - but four light meals a day will overall serve you very well, and give the body a more steady, regulated nourishment.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Food
  • Light

• I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Lucky
  • Grateful
  • Fortunate

• In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me – a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Love
  • Girl

• The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Home
  • Risk
  • Adversity

• Each hour until we meet is as a birdThat wings from far his gradual way alongThe rustling covert of my soul.

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Soul

• Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Blessings
  • Misfortunes