Walt Whitman Quotes

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

Walt Whitman

• Joy
• Spirit
• Glode

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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

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• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

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• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

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• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

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• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

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• There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.

  

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• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

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• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

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• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

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• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

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• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

  

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• 凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。

  

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• The spirit may triumph where politics (the League and the United Nations), socio-political faiths such as Marxism, Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism - all have failed. I see our only hope in faith, charity, and in humbling ourselves before man and God.

  

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• Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.

  

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• For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.

  

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• I like food to be really simple but have a lot of technique all the same.

  

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• In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

  

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• A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

  

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• I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.

  

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• O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Joy
  • Spirit
  • Glode