Walt Whitman Quotes

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.

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• I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Age
  • Three
  • Statistics

• I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Professional

• Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Texas

• It's going to be hard. But I think that when we are in tough environments, it helps us focus more and it helps us concentrate. We're looking forward to it. We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Confidence

• Dreams never wear you down.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Dreams
  • Wear

• Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Influence
  • Reasonableness

• Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

  

  Charles II
  • Brother
  • Travels

• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

  

  Euripides
  • Friend
  • Ignorant
  • Prefer

• Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Manners

• Wise men hear and see as little children do.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Children
  • Hear
  • Wise Men

• It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Spring
  • Lover

• I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Desire
  • Order
  • Beliefs

• I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • War
  • Losses
  • Horrors

• I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Proud
  • Example
  • Literacy

• AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Appearance
  • Ownership
  • Diseases

• Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • True
  • Way

• I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Make
  • Clever
  • Temptation

• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Science

• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truths
  • Resist
  • Delivery