Walt Whitman Quotes

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Walt Whitman

• Baseball
• Blessing
• Stoicism
• American Game

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• Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Financial

• What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Writing
  • Story
  • First

• Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Power

• Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Universe
  • Same
  • Alien

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Faith

• I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's something I don't want to do, I don't do it. Maybe it's stubborn, but any choices, if you don't like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.

  

  Cam
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Desire

• It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Black
  • Always
  • Strength

• I can't hide my feelings.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Feelings
  • Hide

• I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Money
  • Travel

• I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Song
  • Words

• In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Society
  • Innocent

• God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

  

  Prince Charles
  • History
  • Prince

• Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

  

  Felicia Day
  • You
  • Missing
  • Year

• Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Bad
  • Said
  • Might

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Baseball
  • Blessing
  • Stoicism