John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

I know not where His islands liftTheir fronded palms in air;I only know I cannot driftBeyond His love and care.

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• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Long
  • Night
  • Ride

• Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • You
  • Period

• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Words
  • Movies
  • Other

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Creativity
  • Room

• Shun all vice, especially card playing.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Playing
  • Vice
  • Shun

• Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • Business
  • Care
  • Greatest

• Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Want
  • Always
  • Body

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Doubt
  • Lazy

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• If something's not right, I don't believe in maintaining something for the sake of what's considered a traditional family, because I believe that there are different ways to raise children. It's far more effective to raise children in happy homes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Children

• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Respect
  • Joy
  • Feel

• Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Cat

• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fascinated

• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • Road
  • English

• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Poetry

• I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Fall

• Yoko brought the walrus, there was magic in the air.

  

  Ricky Nelson
  • Air
  • Magic
  • Walrus

• My first match was against Razor Ramon. I lost. Come to think about it, I lost a lot back in those days.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Lost

• I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.

  

  Tyler Florence
  • Music
  • Happy
  • California

• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Present

• I know not where His islands liftTheir fronded palms in air;I only know I cannot driftBeyond His love and care.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Air