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Edward Walker Quotes

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Edward Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: english
Birth: April 20, 1837 - January 3, 1906

Topics

Fear Character Mind Thoughts Action

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

Jeremy Sisto

Guitar Play Juggle

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

John Quincy Adams

Man Religion Brand Hypocrisy Fraud

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

Travis Barker

Home Busy You Never Always Anything

If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.

Rodney Atkins

Life People Me Rest My Life Settle

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

Mary Roach

Day Curious People Me Think You

The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections. They got into the database.

Mike Quigley

Database Elections Got Board State

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

Michelle Dean

Nature Truth Memory Drama Become

I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter.

DeRay Mckesson

Learning People Deep Information Big

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Donald Hall

Work You Know Contentment Working

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

Chris Hillman

Great World View Innocence Edgy

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

Claire Messud

Women Television News Young Film

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

Brendon Burchard

Ambition Hometown You Said Nothing