W.e. Channing Quotes

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

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

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

Just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

I auditioned for a Pepsi commercial, and I got it, and that was incredibly fun. So I thought, Well, maybe I should try this acting thing.

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.