John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Weary lawyers with endless tongues.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Up
  • World
  • Think

• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • School
  • Know
  • Bright

• 'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Character
  • Play
  • Myself

• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Culture
  • Style
  • Architecture

• Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Inspiration

• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Eyes

• To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Doctor

• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Plan
  • Unhappy

• Sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenereedita doctrina sapientum templa serena,despicere unde queas alios passimque videreerrare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae,certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,noctes atque dies niti praestante laboread summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.

  

  Lucretius

• somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso

  

  Eduardo Galeano

• A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

  

  Albert Camus
  • May
  • Character
  • Author

• As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy.

  

  Paula Garces
  • People
  • Crazy

• Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Country
  • Destiny

• All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Time

• You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari

• I'm not the fastest player, but you can't really play up on me because my handles are good enough where I can get around you. But you can't play off of me, because I can shoot. And if smaller guys try to defend me, I'll back them down. I'm a good post player.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Up
  • Good
  • Player

• I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• I've written a very long piece of music recently, the 'Veil of the Temple,' which lasts about seven hours. It's really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.

  

  John Tavener
  • Music
  • Long
  • Night

• Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Argument

• Weary lawyers with endless tongues.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier