Chamber Quotes - Page 16

Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.

Tom DeLay

Christian, Religious, Children

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For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.

Nancy Pelosi

Country, Determination, Jobs

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I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau

Morning, Work, Years

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Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Art, Angel

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.378, Library of America

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Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

H. L. Mencken

Christian, Book, America

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Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Retirement, Flower, Ambition

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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.

Philip Sidney

Sweet, Sleep, Light

'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfare. If by chance we are meant to end life in our beds, we are whisked like pox victims to the nearest hospital, where we are kept as alone and unaware as possible of the approach of disintegration.

M. F. K. Fisher

Dying, Bed, Warfare

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When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

Ole Hallesby

Prayer, Play, Giving

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter, Men, Iron

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That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

Hunter S. Thompson

Support, Magazines, World

Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the
psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

Marshall McLuhan

Echoes, Depth, Antiques

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Isaac Watts

Spiritual, Secret, Decay

Isaac Watts (1734). “Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a Sacred Hymn Suited to Each Subject. Design'd for the Use of Christian Families as Well as for the Hours of Devout Retirement”, p.191

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Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.

Anne Akiko Meyers

Strong, Four, Violin

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This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

Tommy McCarthy

Echoes, Literature, Kind

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.

Sufjan Stevens

Communication, Gossip, Fabulous

"It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

Larry Siedentop

Bridges, Class, Creating

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No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hero, Men, Valet

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Duncan Forbes (1975). “Lectures on the Philosophy of World History”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

Erica Jong

Fall, Sleep, Wish

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I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony.

I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.

Lester Holt

Morning, Independent, Echoes

"Lester Holt: Fulfilling a promise to Class of 2010" by Steve Veres, www.today.com. May 15, 2010.

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South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

Bill Bryson

World, Firsts, Deprivation

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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

E. A. Bucchianeri

Kitchen, Academia, Tables

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Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

Lewis Mumford

Adventure, Giving, House

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With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.

Nico Muhly

Couple, People, Different

Source: www.believermag.com

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The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.

Wu Han

Art, Skills, Understanding

Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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