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Off Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the…
- Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old…
- That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that…
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler…
- I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man,…
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer…
- I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his…
- If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.…
- I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to…
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without…
- Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum incessantly, in preparation…
- It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,…
- They who have been bred in the school of politics fail nowand always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely.…
More Off Quotes
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- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
- I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you… — David Axelrod
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption… — Michele Bachmann
- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon
- Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey