R.Chapman Quotes

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Love is the most powerful weapon in the world for good. I really believe that.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

Love is Natures second sun.

We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Another reality about relationships is that they are never static. All of us experience changes in relationships but a few stop to analyse why a relationship gets better or worse.

God has the potential of touching people's hearts and changing them.

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person ... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

This is life weve been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.