Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeManKnowMoreAbilityElevate

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Tom Freston

YourselfPushYouSeeingSometimes

If the public likes you, you're good.

Mickey Spillane

GoodYouLikesPublic

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

Mike Figgis

TimeInterestingYouPlayTryTop

If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your mobile phone as well.

Mitchell Baker

HistoryFindingYouPhoneBarWell

I'm not here to dance around. I'm here to fight for titles.

Luke Rockhold

DanceFightTitlesHereAround

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

Joseph Hume

PlanPriceNowInconvenienceVague

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

Don Cooper

BestSometimesListenPitchingWhole

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Douglas Coupland

FutureThinkThreeSayRightPoint

I've eaten a lot of strange things. I've eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can't even think of some of the things I've tried.

Chris Bosh

ThinkStrangeBarberCallSomething

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Conrad Black

FaithKnowledgeWarMoralOutside

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

WorkWorldWhyUnderstandNeedSort

Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.

Brie Larson

BrainHelpLovelyWillingYourMuch

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