Walt Whitman Quotes

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

Walt Whitman

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • People
  • Study
  • Brother

• If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Think
  • City
  • Leaving

• From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Done

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Live

• She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Moments
  • Couple
  • Dog

• The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need. The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn, And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Book
  • Together

• Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! Fear, Hope, and Longing, at strife, Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, Gathering strength, gaining breath, - naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fire

• Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
  • Search

• I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

  

  Alan Ball
  • School
  • High

• I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • School
  • Positive
  • Teacher

• Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Fool
  • Wealth
  • Slave

• If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.

  

  Karla Kuskin
  • Like
  • Sun
  • Made

• To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

  

  Mark Mothersbaugh
  • Book
  • Rest

• Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Profound

• We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Sun
  • Dazzling