Walt Whitman Quotes

The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

Walt Whitman

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• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Song
  • Short

• I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Won
  • Crown

• My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Ocean
  • Consistent

• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • May
  • Always

• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Fly
  • Vegetarian

• The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Existence
  • Profound
  • Modern

• They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Men
  • May

• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Man
  • Realize
  • Catalyst

• You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Tomorrow
  • Whole

• In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Loneliness
  • Surprised
  • Shadows

• Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Air
  • Two
  • Benefits

• The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hurt
  • Common
  • Duties

• There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Soul
  • Jesus

• I love being a judge, and I anticipate being a judge for the rest of my life.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Judge

• Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Question
  • Stars
  • Stripes

• The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Loves
  • Sleeps
  • Dispositions