Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

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Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.

Jim Gerlach

LeaderUnitedWouldUnited States

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

Jeffrey Zeldman

FilmmakingFrameWithoutAgreement

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

Andrew Card

WomenChildrenThoughtLovedEnough

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

Jeffrey Eugenides

JobThinkBadWonderEconomyTurn

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

John Wooden

LightThinkThoughtDoingWantWay

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

Amitabh Bachchan

WorkHomeStressMediaOutsideHard

What I've looked to do is try and become a change agent for good, to create the behavioral changes, the cultural changes to really embrace urgency, adopt a higher tolerance to risk, and just encourage people to make decisions.

Steve Easterbrook

ChangeGoodPeopleDecisionsCreate

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Sophocles

BattlesNecessityAgainstEven

I figure if I keep my spirit in shape, the bones will take care of themselves.

Rita Moreno

CareTake CareWillSpiritShape

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Rufus Sewell

AttitudeSonPerspectiveDeathNow

Amalur's user interface is designed much like a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, liberally sprinkling yellow exclamation points and markers all over your mini-map in order to show you where to quest next.

Jason Schreier

YellowGameYouOverNextQuest

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.

Jason Statham

BeachRunNeverBeenAround

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