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Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.
— Harry Chapin
I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.
— Harry Chapin
In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
I'm a liberal arts junkie.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A dreamer born is a hero bred ...
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit ...
— Harry Chapin
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved,
— Tom Chapin
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A great many mensome comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Impatience never commanded success.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
God trades our ashes for beauty, and our pain for joy.
— T.K. Chapin
All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.
— Harry Chapin
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
— Harry Chapin
Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
— Harry Chapin
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
— Charles V. Chapin
I finally like myself, at last I like myself.
— Harry Chapin
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Where do shadows fall when there is only light.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.
— Harry Chapin
The light of the moon is all we've got to go on ...
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
God is the explanation of all things.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.
— Harry Chapin
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.
— Harry Chapin
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Conscience is its own readiest accuser.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.
— Betty Buckley
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin