Walt Whitman Quotes

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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• Health is never going to go out of fashion.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Health
  • Fashion
  • Never

• The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fly

• [Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Catholic

• I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Girl
  • Party
  • Hair

• Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

  

  Kate (Ma) Barker
  • Lies

• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.

  

  Matthew Henson
  • Eyes
  • Suffering
  • Snow blindness

• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • School
  • Home
  • Sports

• Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Opinions

• Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blessed
  • Littles
  • Speech

• There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Memories
  • Treasure

• Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Work
  • City
  • Fools

• Amy Schumer is a really, really hilarious writer. She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.

  

  Katie Dippold
  • Humor
  • Writer
  • Hilarious

• I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Today
  • Jesus
  • Needs

• I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Dream
  • Past
  • Kind

• I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Voice

• For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Messages
  • Expressions
  • Evolutionary