John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
  • Man
  • Blessings

• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Home
  • Coffee
  • Page

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • May
  • Freedom

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Never
  • Model
  • Thing

• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  

  Larry David
  • Always
  • Find
  • Nuts

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Had
  • Few
  • Hits

• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Guitar

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

  

  William Shatner
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Careers

• 'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Country
  • School
  • Mother

• You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fall
  • Love Is
  • Drunk

• The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection for the unborn.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Country
  • Done
  • Meaningful

• Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Fall