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

• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Human

• 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 have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• 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

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Space
  • Child
  • Memories

• [T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

  

  H. Verlan Andersen
  • True
  • Nature
  • Political

• Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Today
  • Freedom

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

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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