William Ellery Channing Quotes

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842

Topics

NatureGrowthKnowledgeIgnorance

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

John Baldessari

FeelDesireHumanAlwaysUnderstood

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Angus Wilson

PeopleWorldOpportunitiesSometimes

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

John Ridley

MeThoughtProcessDemonsHustle

I've got confidence that I'll be able to pick it up eventually, but that's the reason I'm a full-time Sevens player this year: because I knew coming into it that it would be really tough, and I've got to give it my all.

Sonny Bill Williams

ConfidenceToughYearReasonUpGot

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Steven Sinofsky

SciencePerformanceManagementThink

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Tracy Chapman

PathBackI CanSometimesPossible

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

MusicHeartEyesFireWomanMan

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

PassionPoliticsReligionEndTrue

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

Didi Conn

LoveBeautifulJoyChildYouMatter

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.

Colm Toibin

CharacterThinkDoneDialogueSee

If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is really going to matter.

Brooke Sweat

KnowWantNothingMatterGoingThen

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

Anne Reid

KitchenToo MuchSometimesSchedule

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