Walt Whitman Quotes

All truths wait in all things.

Walt Whitman

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• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Success
  • Know
  • Wait

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Wait

• When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Enemy
  • Wait

• Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Psychology

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Learn
  • Wait
  • Sit

• And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • River
  • Wait
  • Sitting

• It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Respect
  • Wait
  • Diminish

• Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Truths
  • Conduct

• Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Communication
  • Possible
  • Truths

• Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Language
  • Truths
  • Falsehood

• The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Practice
  • Dreams
  • Truths

• There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wait
  • Pregnancy
  • Spirits

• What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Errors
  • Give Up
  • Truths

• Two truths cannot contradict one another.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truths
  • Contradict

• Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Truths
  • Demonstrable
  • Ineluctable

• It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them.

  

  Fabian Cancellara
  • Dream
  • Fighting
  • Goals

• My guys tried hard. I told them in the locker room it does hurt but that means we're playing games that mean something. Until you get to where you want to be at the top you have to go through some of this. It should hurt and it does hurt.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Hard
  • Guys
  • Tried

• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Threat
  • Honestly
  • Pact

• Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • World
  • Influences
  • Finest

• Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Emotional
  • Creativity
  • Logic

• All truths wait in all things.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Wait
  • Truths