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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

Earth - Employment - Man - Whole

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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Whole

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

End - Military - Whole

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

Making - Whole

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Citizenry - Nuns - Whole

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Anton Chekhov

Physician, Playwright

There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

Whole

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David Attenborough

Broadcaster, Natural Historian, Narrator

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

Kindness - Loss - Mistreating - Whole - Wishing - Worrying

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Kofi Annan

Former Secretary General of the United Nations

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development

Countries - Innocence - Lie - Whole

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Discouragement - Dyslexia - Feelings - Pleasure - Whole

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Character - Divergence - Earth - Human - Loyalty - People - Planet - Together - Whole

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RuPaul

Actor, Model, Singer, Songwriter, TV Personality

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

Whole

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Thomas Merton

Monk, Writer, Theologian, Mystic, Poet, Social Activist

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Devotion - Human - Lie - Whole

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P. J. O'Rourke

Political Satirist, Journalist

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Concert - Payment - Whole

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist

A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.

Enjoying - Fall - Illness - Meaning - Parents - Sharing - Whole

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Margaret Mead

Cultural Anthropologist, Author

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

Disadvantage - Earth - Man - Whole

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.

Ability - Citizenry - Mindset - Whole

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Calvin Coolidge

Former President of the United States

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.

Honesty - Man - Whole

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Woody Allen

Director, Writer, Actor, Comedian

I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

Enjoying - Wants - Whole

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Jane Fonda

Actress, Writer, Political Activist

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

Challenge - Inspiration - Perfection - Whole

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Mario Puzo

Novelist, Screenwriter, Journalist

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Man - Trial - Whole

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Colin Powell

Former United States Secretary of State

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Courting - Examination - Policy - Start - Taking - Whole - Willing

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Stephen King

Writer

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

Realization - Whole

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Actress, Producer, Designer

I've never done nudity in my whole career. I certainly don't think now is the time to start. I don't think it's necessary for anything I've done, although I have absolutely no opinions against anyone who feels comfortable doing it.

Feelings - Whole

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Challenge - Consciousness - Morals - Whole

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Jim Henson

Puppeteer, Animator, Filmmaker

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

Playing - Pretense - Whole

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Henri Matisse

Artist

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

Emptiness - Objectification - Playing - Whole

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Jorge Luis Borges

Philosopher, Poet, Writer, Critic

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

Belief - Citizenry - Countries - Feelings - Heavens - Man - Whole

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

Accept - Isolation - Whole

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Henry Ford

Businessman, Industrialist

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Inspiration - Motivation - Secrets - Success - Whole

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Anton Chekhov

Physician, Playwright

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

Accounting - Drinking - Whole

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Christianity - Whole

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Lady Gaga

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

Actress - Feelings - Flattery - Hate - Obsession - Whole

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