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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. -- Winston Churchill
We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing. -- Billy Graham
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. -- Henry A. Wallace
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. -- Henry David Thoreau
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. -- James Allen
When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. -- Prince
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels. -- Gerald Clarke
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One. -- Yakov Smirnoff
God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. -- Billy Graham
I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours. -- Rafael Vinoly
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. -- Bill Gates
Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should. -- Al Franken
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. -- Karl Jaspers
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. -- Piers Anthony
There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. -- Marianne Williamson
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. -- Oscar Wilde
I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in a way it's similar to switching channels or surfing the web; I like people getting lulled into something and then taking them somewhere else. -- Reggie Watts
Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels. -- Richie Havens
Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV. -- Amy Jo Martin
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
People like reality; I think it's always happened from the Roman times, when people used to go to a coliseum and watch people compete against each other. I think networks and cable channels find it an easier way of producing and putting things together, because people will watch it and it's cheaper. -- David Charvet
The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity. -- Radhanath Swami
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. -- Mithun Chakraborty
Smiles form the channels of a future tear. -- Lord Byron
When I was little, there were three channels. -- Rodney Carrington
Prayer only works when the channels are open. -- Woodrow M. Kroll
A lot of people take shots at news channels. -- George Stroumboulopoulos
I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels. -- Sebastian Bach
Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels. -- Joseph Michelli
One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure. -- Harriet Van Horne
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels. -- James Purefoy
I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. -- Jim Carrey
TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film. -- Eric Stoltz
To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels. -- Michael Gungor
We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing. -- Billy Graham
You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined? -- David Mutti Clark
Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others. -- Deepak Chopra
A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information. -- Narendra Modi
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. -- Jane Roberts
Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only. -- John Nelson Darby
Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on. -- Bruce Springsteen
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels. -- Rodney Carrington
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness. -- Julia Cameron
In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication. -- Yoko Ono
When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels. -- Caroline Myss
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next. -- C. S. Lewis
With more [distribution] channels, it's important to have 'must-have' content and brands that cut through the clutter. -- Thomas O Staggs
Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity. -- Sunny Singh
Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. -- Li Ka-shing
Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine. -- Mariska Hargitay
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. -- Rupert Murdoch
All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me. -- Catherine Ponder
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. -- Walter Savage Landor
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. -- Herbert Hoover
Look at the way I look. Guys like me aren't on TV too often. Not on news channels. -- George Stroumboulopoulos
The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open. -- Anita Roddick
Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for. -- Ken Bruen
I don't like news channels so I have six websites that I check and I get the daily update. -- Jen Kirkman
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A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. -- Jurgen Habermas
Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start. -- John C. Maxwell
The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels. -- Whitfield Diffie
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting -- Jurgen Habermas
Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic. -- Sergei Lavrov
Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things. -- William Kristol
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough. -- Bill Maher
Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels. -- Leonard Cohen
In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels. -- Ben Bernanke
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart. -- Bill W.
I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much. -- Norman Lear
Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels' should be the slogan of every farmer. -- George Washington
There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels. -- Silvio Scaglia
I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that. -- Lucas Till
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. -- Ella Maillart
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. -- Herbert Wilf
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping. -- Dana Delany
Everybody has a magazine and a channel. There are 500 channels and 500 magazines, and we wonder why we're not united as a country. -- Bill Maher
I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be. -- Jill Soloway
As we begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channels open and we access the infinite vitality of life force. -- Shakti Gawain
You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. -- Sheila Ballantyne
Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is. -- Andy Daly
You have a choice every moment of the day to open yourself up. And when you do that, it opens the channels of love. -- Laura Berman
I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately. -- Brit Hume
In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate. -- Stewart Butterfield
Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels? -- James Callaghan
No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels. -- John Ramsay McCulloch
I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. -- Italo Calvino
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other. -- Trey Anastasio
Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed. -- Evelyn Underhill
Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.' -- Kevin Spacey
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good. -- Elisabeth Elliot
I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television. -- Thu Tran
Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial. -- Adam McKay
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture -- Camille Paglia
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white. -- Rachel Sklar
I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade? -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian. -- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. -- George Washington
As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail. -- Anita Elberse
Clear focus is the mind's magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create. -- Sonia Choquette
Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable. -- Nellie McKay
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are -- Arthur Koestler
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube. -- Psy
Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved. -- Albert Low
Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next. -- Gerald Jonas
Social media is so powerful now, and with all these blog sites and YouTube channels and videos, it makes it more and more relevant to bridge artists together. -- Tyga
Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas. -- Park Geun-hye
It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels. -- Henry David Thoreau
We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television. -- Alice Lowe
News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels. -- Rupert Murdoch

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