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

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• 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

• I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Up
  • Earth
  • City

• 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

• We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

  

  John Sherman Cooper
  • Time
  • Truth

• Returning is the movement of the Way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Movement
  • Returning

• If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

  

  Marc Blucas
  • Life

• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Light
  • Violence
  • Sex

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

  

  Thomas Eakins
  • Men
  • Feelings
  • Animated