Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Fire is the most tolerable third party.

Henry David Thoreau

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• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Myself
  • Fire
  • Tried

• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Fire

• I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Fire
  • Professional
  • Romantic

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Party

• Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Party
  • Everyone

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Done
  • Party
  • Day

• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Think
  • Party
  • Republican

• I'm not a party person.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Party
  • Person

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Party
  • Clear
  • Republican

• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Party
  • Cooking
  • Painless

• I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole thing.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Family
  • Kids

• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Military
  • Democratic

• I'd have to say that Muay Thai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • World
  • Popular

• At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I'm going to make a move, I gotta make a move now.

  

  Loni Love
  • Heart
  • Job

• Fire is the most tolerable third party.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Party
  • Fire