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

• The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Heart
  • May
  • Courage

• Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friends
  • Tolerance
  • Religions

• If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• 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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  • Religions
  • Abstractions