Walt Whitman Quotes

None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.

Walt Whitman

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• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Types

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Trouble
  • Need
  • Bank

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Guy

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • You
  • Company
  • Chinese

• When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Powerful

• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • She
  • Yourself

• I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Being
  • Just
  • Anonymous

• I like fighters who come to fight.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Come

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Music
  • Comedy

• Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

  

  Ami Bera
  • Work
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• The answers from Genesis tell us that there was no death, bloodshed, disease, or suffering before sin. All these things are a consequence of sin. That's why Christians can't believe in millions of years for the fossil record - it's a horrible record of death, disease, and suffering, which couldn't have happened in the Garden before Adam fell.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Death

• This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

  

  John Doolittle
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future