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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau quote: "This world is but a canvas for our imagination."

This world is but a canvas for our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

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Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament. Henry Bessemer
George Orwell quote: "Bir sonu olmayan ve kimsenin okumayaca, ama birisi iin yazlm..."
Bir sonu olmayan ve kimsenin okumayaca, ama birisi iin yazlm ve bununla biimlenen bir mektup gibiydi gnlk. George Orwell
Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I’ve always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work. Sue Monk Kidd
Edward Burnett Tylor quote: "Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish."
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. Edward Burnett Tylor
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written! Orhan Pamuk
Oliver Reed quote: "I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry,..."
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. Oliver Reed
Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press. Mike Rogers
Alison Bechdel quote: "I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. Alison Bechdel
The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood. Ansel Adams
Jodie Foster quote: "My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating..."
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant. Jodie Foster
I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. Frank Leslie
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job. Cab Calloway
I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. 'Because you're children and you can unterstand it,' he said. Harper Lee
Oprah, for instance, still can't get past the n-word issue (or the nigga issue, with all apologies to Ms. Winfrey). I can respect her position. To her, it's a matter of acknowledging the deep and painful history of the word. To me, it's just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. "Nigga" becomes "porch monkey" becomes "coon" and so on if that's what in a person's heart. The key is to change the... Jay-Z