Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano De Crescenzo

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

Preity Zinta

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Rashida Jones

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

James Surowiecki

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

Mike Royko

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

John T. Flynn

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Ivan Turgenev

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Joseph Addison

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Joe Cornish

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Nellie Bly

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Richard M. Nixon

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Tim Crouch

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Chang-Rae Lee

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

Mae Whitman