Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Henry David Thoreau

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• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Culture
  • Conservative

• If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Movie
  • Opportunity
  • Comfort

• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Mankind
  • Lead
  • Microsoft

• This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Organization
  • Uncertainty

• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Respect
  • Show

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Bed
  • Roses

• I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Night
  • You

• I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Character
  • Grow

• Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Born

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Passion

• I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Game
  • Team
  • Player

• I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Like

• The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Me
  • Supportive

• It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Culture
  • British
  • Celebrated

• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Always
  • Process
  • Uncertainty

• I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Interested
  • Not Interested

• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • True
  • Nature

• It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Family

• Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

  

  Colin Mochrie

• It seems that sin is geographical. From this conclusion, it is only a small step to the further conclusion that the notion of 'sin' is illusory, and that the cruelty habitually practised in punishing it is unnecessary.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Small

• A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Actresses
  • Elsewhere
  • Bollywood

• The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

  

  Sydney Carter
  • Songs
  • Fortune
  • Royalties

• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

  

  Henry David Thoreau