Walt Whitman Quotes

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

Walt Whitman

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• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Mother
  • Environment
  • Unique

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Christian
  • Principles
  • Tell

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

  Lance Ito
  • American
  • Day
  • Value

• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Community

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

  

  Patch Adams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Nature

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Alone
  • Teenager
  • Loner

• I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Good
  • Long
  • Family

• Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Career

• People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

  

  Joshua Michael Stern
  • People
  • Jobs
  • Realizing

• Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Universe