Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes

No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.

Thomas Eakins

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • You

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Strong
  • Spirit
  • Rebellious

• Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday
  • Regrets

• I was brought up as a normal kid.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Up
  • Kid
  • Normal

• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  

  Rachel True
  • Me
  • Hair
  • Movies

• Any team can have a bad century.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Century

• Peace is far more preferable to war.… I believe that peace is the only path to true security. … And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • War
  • True

• Clarence Darrow's examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes trial Scopes Trial Day 7

  

  Clarence Darrow

• I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fashion

• I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

  

  David Whyte
  • May
  • Future
  • Attention

• I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.

  

  Dean Martin
  • Kids
  • House
  • Words

• I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

  

  Lisa Kleypas
  • Magic
  • Hug

• To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

  

  Miguel
  • Soul
  • Culture

• I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Trying
  • American

• Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

  

  Jason Silva
  • World
  • Powerful

• Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

  

  J. C. Macaulay
  • Long
  • May
  • Forgiveness

• I'm most proud of my family.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Family
  • Proud

• My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Men
  • Real
  • Dad

• No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.

  

  Thomas Eakins
  • Men
  • Feelings
  • Animated