John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Press bravely onward! - not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Music
  • Job

• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Want
  • Deep
  • End

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Know

• Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Hammer
  • Toilet

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Order
  • U.S.
  • Crown

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

  

  Daniel Goleman

• At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Up
  • Character
  • Superhero

• Why are people always shooting zombies? Why not just chop their heads off? How can zombies get you if you have a good sword?

  

  Linden Ashby
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

  

  Frank Wedekind
  • Good

• My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• Press bravely onward! - not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Good
  • Trust