Walt Whitman Quotes

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Walt Whitman

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Said
  • Kiss
  • Mouth

• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Lose
  • Two
  • Three

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Never
  • Cancer
  • Mouth

• If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Enough
  • Win
  • Lose

• If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Enjoy
  • Lose
  • Victories

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Me
  • Mouth
  • Fat

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • English
  • Tongue
  • Indulge

• In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Time
  • Lose
  • Difficulties

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Stupid
  • Yourself
  • Lose

• Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Internet
  • Press
  • Mouth

• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Consciousness

• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Courage
  • Lose
  • Imperfections

• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• But it's a phenomenal ride. We have amazing celebrities. We have great dates. We have drama. It's this great love story that will hopefully have a happy ending.

  

  Chris Harrison
  • Drama
  • Phenomenal
  • Celebrities

• A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Stranger
  • Refusing
  • Asserts

• If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Business
  • Job
  • Create

• I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Lose
  • Tongue
  • Mouth