Henry David Thoreau Quotes

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Henry David Thoreau

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• Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Attention
  • College
  • Same

• I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Go

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Me
  • Person
  • Planet

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Moment

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Questions

• Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Interesting

• Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Government
  • Nothing
  • Unjust

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Music
  • Success

• During the surge and in the years after the surge, Iraqi forces fought and died for their country at vastly higher numbers than did U.S. and coalition forces. We know that they can fight.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Country

• People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

  

  Doug Jones
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Money
  • May
  • Bad

• You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • May
  • Science
  • Progress