Walt Whitman Quotes

I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

Walt Whitman

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• If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Stereotypes

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Look
  • Terrorism
  • Group

• But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Attention
  • Right

• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Think
  • Death

• I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Waiting

• I'm not a fan of Twitter.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Fan
  • Twitter

• I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Vision
  • Monster
  • Vampire

• I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Excitement

• The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Spiritual
  • Travel
  • Poverty

• I wish I had spent more time at the office.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Office

• The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

  

  Kabir

• (Highland) made the adjustment - they just didn't hit them.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Adjustment
  • Highland

• Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

  

  Vincent Price
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• We insist, it seems, on living.

  

  Virginia Woolf

• I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Country
  • High
  • You

• I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

  

  Peter Brook
  • World
  • Together
  • Community

• I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Goodness
  • South
  • Draught