Walt Whitman Quotes

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

Walt Whitman

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Down
  • Principles
  • System

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Political
  • Small
  • Community

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Years
  • Sex

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Spring
  • Roots
  • Satisfied

• The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Believe
  • Sustainability

• Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Beginning
  • Eye
  • Brother

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Want
  • Design

• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Long
  • Positive

• I would put myself towards left of center.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Myself
  • Left
  • Center

• I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Think
  • Feel

• I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Book

• Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.

  

  John Lanchester
  • World
  • Fall

• If vital interests under duress can be preserved by peaceful means, negotiations will find that out. If our adversary will accept nothing-less than a concession of our rights, negotiations will find that out. And if negotiations are to take place, this nation cannot abdicate to its adversaries the task of choosing the forum and the framework and the time.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Time

• I can't imagine, I can't get in the mind of a wrestling fan who wants to break news that spoils a surprise for somebody. Would you want a surprise spoiled?

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrestling

• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Feel
  • Sweet