Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Rebecca Solnit

In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.

Annie Jacobsen

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Garet Garrett

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

James Buchan

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

Jeff Goodell

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

Rebecca MacKinnon

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

James D'arcy

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

Lynda Barry

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

Mark Shand

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

Rainbow Rowell

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Sean Penn

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Tom Stoppard

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Wes Anderson

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

William Dunbar

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Comte de Lautreamont

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Caitlin Moran

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

Matt Groening