Henry David Thoreau Quotes

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PowerFreeAuthorityIndependentHim

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Joe Jamail

SuccessAttitudeLawyerReputation

People are really interested in economic security.

Jim Gray

PeopleSecurityEconomicInterested

I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous - from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.

Megyn Kelly

MeHotelFabulousHardClearlyOnly

I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

Max Holloway

DoerTalker

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

Robert Green Ingersoll

PeopleLawIndependencePolitical

I'm an awful golfer.

Matthew Morrison

AwfulGolfer

Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.

Simon Cowell

TimeDoorEveryoneUpBecauseBeen

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

Molly Shannon

GoodFatherGreatJobFunSister

When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.

Lori Wilde

LifeGreatTimeImaginationSpring

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

Jonathan Ive

CarDoorNew CarMeaningYouLook

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Dick Van Dyke

GoodDownMoviesTasteSomeQuite

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

Denise Mina

ChangePeopleThinkLiteratureClass

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