Walks Quotes
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
JuliusJ Epstein— 1942 Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
john updike— On T. S. Eliot (1984) by Peter Ackroyd, in which the Eliot estate forbade quotation from Eliot’s books and letters, The New Yorker (25 March 1985)
Good luck walks and bullshit flies.
— "Intermission", by the Scissor Sisters
Say not, "I have found the truth ," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
— Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet (1923)
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death.O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
john keats— 1819 Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 Jul.
It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old courthouse pacing up and down.
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay— 1914 The Congo and Other Poems,'Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight'.
That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 54, l.5-8.
MORAL: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.
George Ade— The Through Train, Knocking the Neighbors (1912)
To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen,Some recommend the bowling green;Some, hilly walks; all, exercise;Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
matthew green— Line 89.
Christianity depends f1nally on consciousness and experience. From other departments of the mind she may retire at times or seem to, but never from this. Sitting here, if allowed to, on the throne of the soul, she occasionally walks into the other rooms and sets them in order; and accustomed lo her presence, sooner or later the soul finds every department flooded with her light.
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 134.
Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees,Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses.And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall,That Spring is risen, is risen again,That Life is risen, is risen again,That Love is risen, is risen again, andLove is Lord of all.
Alfred Noyes— The Lord of Misrule
Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."
pliny the younger— Book I, letter 5, 14.
If you walk somebody, you just have to get the next hitter out. You can't be frustrated about walks or who is on base. If you've got good stuff that night, you're good enough to get the next hitter out.
carlos zambrano— Duncan, Chris, Chi Cubs 3, Houston 0, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 16, 2007
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,And catch the manners, living as they rise;Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 13.
With what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders, unwondering …
thomas carlyle— Signs of the Times.
I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
rudyard kipling— The Cat that Walked by Himself.
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.
stanisław lem— Ch. 2 (His Master's Voice (1968))
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
john milton— John Milton, Comus (1637), line 381.
The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature and her paths are peace.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 187.
Then there are the different ways of walking. [We have] sixteen types of walks – for example like a warrior, a lady, a man…learn many animal and bird movements.
— By Samjukta Panigrahi quoted in "New Theatre Quarterly 55", in p.258
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act II, scene 1.
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
john milton— John Milton, Comus (1637), line 381.
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 180.
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired
— Sayings of Light and Love (1581), # 97, John of the Cross (translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodríguez, 1991).
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired
— St. John of the Cross in Sayings of Light and Love (1581, trans. by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodríguez, 1991), # 97.
Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone.
— Forever Yours
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 1, line 166
