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

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• 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

• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Risk
  • Thought

• 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 someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• 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

• You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Time
  • Character
  • Experience

• 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

• I want to be the guy with the fresh new sound. I can remember as a kid thinking about a DJ going, 'Ladies and gentlemen, here's the new one from Frankie Ballard. He's the guy with that hot new sound.' That's the dream.

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Fame

• You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King’s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin’s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • History
  • True

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

  

  Henry David Thoreau