Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

Herbie Hancock

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Herman Cain

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

Herman Cain

I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the Chief.'

Herman Cain

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

Herbert Spencer

When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.

Herman Melville

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Herman Melville

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Herman Melville

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

Herman Melville

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Herb Ritts

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Herb Ritts

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Herb Alpert

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

Herb Alpert

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

Herb Kelleher

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Henry David Thoreau

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

Henry David Thoreau

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Henry David Thoreau

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Henry David Thoreau

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

Henry David Thoreau

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

Henry David Thoreau

Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Henry David Thoreau

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Henry David Thoreau

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Henry David Thoreau

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

Henry David Thoreau

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Henry David Thoreau

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

Henry David Thoreau

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

Henry David Thoreau

There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,--for the root is faith,--I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.

Henry David Thoreau

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Henry David Thoreau

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

Henry David Thoreau

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Henry David Thoreau

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

Henry David Thoreau

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.