Walt Whitman Quotes

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Walt Whitman

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• Retrospect
• Sleepers

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• Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Reality
  • Rap
  • Going

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Slave
  • Obligation

• I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Why
  • Party

• If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Trying
  • Language

• Art It does really really good when someone understands your art.

  

  Till Lindemann Rammstein
  • Art
  • Understands
  • Really Good

• Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God
  • Light
  • Sun

• We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

  

  Tertullian
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Violence

• If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else, clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Things

• We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

  

  George Eliot
  • Future
  • Achievements
  • Margin

• My advice is you've got to make sure you wear the clothes and not let the clothes wear you. It's quite simple in a way. Don't wear something you totally feel uncomfortable with, but take some chances. Play around a bit. I felt very uncomfortable in suits when I was younger, so what I just started doing was wearing suits when I was going to dinner. I used to overdress a little bit so I got used to wearing suits. Now wearing a suit is like wearing a track suit for me. So it's all good.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Simple
  • Chance
  • Advice

• The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Christian
  • Bible
  • Common

• The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Shadows
  • Retrospect
  • Sleepers