Walt Whitman Quotes

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

Walt Whitman

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• 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

• I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Totalitarian
  • Martyrdom

• 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

• Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Phenomenon
  • Physical
  • Laziness

• 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
  • Wit

• 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

• The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Violence
  • Grief

• My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Doing

• 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

• Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Capitalism
  • Truths

• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truths
  • Resist
  • Surgeon