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

• We did not play. I don't know if we overlooked them, (but) there's no point in complaining about it. We deserved to lose. We should be going home and we will be going home in a couple of hours.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Lose
  • Complaining
  • Deserved

• We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Gossip
  • Tongue
  • Disregard

• I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • School
  • Never

• First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Exist
  • Apart

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

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

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Lose
  • Tongue
  • Mouth