Walt Whitman Quotes

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

Walt Whitman

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• See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Country
  • Justice
  • See

• All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Outdoors
  • Unboreable

• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  

  Felix Adler
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Me
  • Engineering
  • Economics

• I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Age
  • Wanted
  • Nine

• History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Evidence

• I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Dreams

• I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Work
  • Heart

• It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Conversation
  • Discussion
  • Topic

• Timing has a lot to with art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Art
  • Timing

• The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Government
  • Positive
  • Air Campaign

• You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Horse
  • Airplane
  • Lovely

• Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Succeed
  • Boxing
  • Arena

• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fame
  • Poet
  • England

• I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • France
  • Stopped

• I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • People
  • World
  • Film

• We very often confuse personality with leadership.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Personality

• Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Euphemism

• Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Poets
  • Religions
  • Abstractions