W.e. Channing Quotes

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.

I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.

I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I lead a very boring, normal life.

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

True love is the parent of humility.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

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.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Sorry, dear. This isn´t fairy tale. There´s no happily ever after. Just... ever after.

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

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

The great hope of society is individual character.