Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • See
  • Anyone

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.

  

  Ram Dass

• I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Bad
  • Teacher
  • Silly

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Baby

• If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Good
  • Women
  • Dream

• Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Career

• Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Growing
  • Empowering

• My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.

  

  May-Britt Moser
  • Good
  • Why
  • Friends

• I couldn't imagine a home without animals.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • Home

• If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Pain

• Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

  

  Dizzy Dean
  • World

• There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I'm speaking, it's not from myself. I'm speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Mind
  • Character

• Love life more than the meaning of it?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Meaning
  • Love Life

• Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Chaos
  • Self-destroyed

• Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

  

  Chuck D
  • People
  • Up
  • Positive

• The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Mountain
  • Range
  • Isolated