Best John A. Wheeler Quotes: The most famous quotes by John A. Wheeler
If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. — John A. Wheeler
Best William Whewell Quotes: The most famous quotes by William Whewell
Every failure is a step to success… — William Whewell
Best Edwin P. Whipple Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edwin P. Whipple
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. — Edwin P. Whipple
Best Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Best James Abbott McNeill Whistler Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critc for five. (from Whistler vs. Ruskin, 1878) — James Abbott McNeill Whistler
You shouldn’t say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it and then, you know, you’re perfectly safe. — James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Best Jim Whitaker Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jim Whitaker
You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered you conquer yourself–your hopes, your fears. — Jim Whitaker
Best Angela White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Angela White
Brains are like sponges… If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy. — Angela White
Best Barbara M. White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Barbara M. White
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest. — Barbara M. White
Best Betty White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Betty White
I think we’re losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don’t care whether it’s ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored. — Betty White
Best E. B. White Quotes: The most famous quotes by E. B. White
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. — E. B. White
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that. — E. B. White
Writing is hard work and bad for the health. — E. B. White
Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you. — E. B. White
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. — E. B. White
Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. — E. B. White
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me. — E. B. White
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. — E. B. White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. — E. B. White
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. — E. B. White
Best Edmund White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edmund White
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. — Edmund White
Best Hugh White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Hugh White
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. — Hugh White
Best Mark White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mark White
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football. — Mark White
Best Minor White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Minor White
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. — Minor White
Best Nelia Gardner White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nelia Gardner White
Some people just don’t seem to realize, when they’re moaning about not getting prayers answered, that no is the answer. — Nelia Gardner White
Best Theodore Harold White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Theodore Harold White
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them — this is of the essence of leadership. — Theodore Harold White
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. — Theodore Harold White
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment. — Theodore Harold White
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not. — Theodore Harold White
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. — Theodore Harold White
Best Theodore White Quotes: The most famous quotes by Theodore White
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free — however free one can be on this planet. — Theodore White
Best William Allen White Quotes: The most famous quotes by William Allen White
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. — William Allen White
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. — William Allen White
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet. — William Allen White
Best William Hale White Quotes: The most famous quotes by William Hale White
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. — William Hale White
Best George Whitefield Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Whitefield
We are immortal until our work on earth is done. — George Whitefield
Best Alfred North Whitehead Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. — Alfred North Whitehead
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. – from Science and the Modern World — Alfred North Whitehead
Seek simplicity, and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
Ideas won’t keep something must be done about them. — Alfred North Whitehead
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness. — Alfred North Whitehead
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. — Alfred North Whitehead
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. — Alfred North Whitehead
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. — Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. — Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. — Alfred North Whitehead
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. — Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. — Alfred North Whitehead
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. — Alfred North Whitehead
There are no whole truths all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. — Alfred North Whitehead
Best George Whitehead Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Whitehead
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur. — George Whitehead
Best John Whitehead Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Whitehead
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it. — John Whitehead
Best Katharine Whitehorn Quotes: The most famous quotes by Katharine Whitehorn
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. — Katharine Whitehorn
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. — Katharine Whitehorn
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. — Katharine Whitehorn
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. — Katharine Whitehorn
Best Drew Eric Whitman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Drew Eric Whitman
He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life’s years. — Drew Eric Whitman
Best Walt Whitman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. — Walt Whitman
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love. — Walt Whitman
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. — Walt Whitman
Answer That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — Walt Whitman
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. — Walt Whitman
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self is. — Walt Whitman
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. — Walt Whitman
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me And why should I not speak to you — Walt Whitman
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. — Walt Whitman
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends. — Walt Whitman
My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic. — Walt Whitman
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait… And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.) — Walt Whitman
From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. — Walt Whitman
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, — Walt Whitman
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. — Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. — Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself, — Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game–the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. — Walt Whitman
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. — Walt Whitman
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. — Walt Whitman
Nothing endures but personal qualities. — Walt Whitman
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. — Walt Whitman
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. — Walt Whitman
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. — Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself. — Walt Whitman
Best Alfred Whitney Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alfred Whitney
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. — Alfred Whitney
Best King Jr. Whitney Quotes: The most famous quotes by King Jr. Whitney
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. — King Jr. Whitney
Best Polly Whitney Quotes: The most famous quotes by Polly Whitney
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art. — Polly Whitney
Best Willis Whitney Quotes: The most famous quotes by Willis Whitney
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. — Willis Whitney
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