Henry David Thoreau Quotes

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• The only power you have is the word no.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Power
  • You
  • Word

• Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Compromise
  • Once

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Small
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Friends
  • Old
  • Comforting

• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Progress

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Night
  • Single

• Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Political
  • Voice

• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • City
  • First
  • Academic

• I hate big models.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Hate
  • Big
  • Models

• I have a very strong belief in God.

  

  M. Ward
  • God
  • Strong
  • Belief

• Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Art
  • Passion

• I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Morning

• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  

  Dean Martin
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I exercise all the time, every morning, and then I do music in the afternoon. I walk two to three miles a day and do Pilates twice a week.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Time
  • Music
  • Morning

• If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Giving

• An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Morning