Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

Henry David Thoreau

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• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Memory

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Life
  • Party
  • Building

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Child

• What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Loneliness
  • Burden
  • Bear

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Love
  • Religious

• There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Science
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Country
  • American
  • Proud

• My songs are about who I am.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Songs

• My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • Appreciated
  • Highly

• Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Path
  • Start

• I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • College
  • First
  • Classmates

• Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Time
  • Line
  • Series

• Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life

• It's just been my mom and I for, like, three years or so. I love being able to not have to feel like I have to share the whole everything with the world, which is why I'm not very good at the Snap Chat, and I need help with my social media. Because I... I kind of just like having just us.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Perfection

• The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

  

  Francis Aungier
  • Interest
  • Constitute
  • Obstinate

• Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

  

  Henry David Thoreau