I Contain Multitudes Quotes & Sayings

Forget Orson Welles, and heed Walt Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."5 — Ed Yong

We all really do contradict ourselves and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are? — Jenn Bennett

Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes." — Frederick Lenz

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife. — Nicolas Bentley

Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how to kiss, reading out loud to herself, so absorbed by the story, singing sadly in the tub, building a fort from the junked cars out in the meadow, by herself in the front row at the black-and-white movies or in the alley, gazing at an eddy of cigarette stubs and trash and fall leaves, smoking her first cigarette at dusk by a pile of dead brush in the desert, then wishing at the stars
she was all of them, and she was so much more that just just her that I still didn't know. — Davy Rothbart

O rose, you look sick.
O rose, wake up and sing. — Santosh Kalwar

An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like. — Kristen Stewart

I contain multitudes. — Liz Coley

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots. — Margaret Atwood

As Athera. To grow.

As Pyrata. To burn.

As Illumae. To light.

As Orense. To open.

As Anase. To dispel.

As Hasari. To heal.

As Travars. To Travel. — V.E Schwab

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at this rate." (But it's hard to feign innocence if you've eaten the apple, he reflected.) "And it looks to me as if it is going to go on, because the French aren't going to give in, and certainly the Arabs aren't, because they can't. They're fighting with their backs the the wall."

"I thought maybe you meant you expected a new world war," he lied.

"That's the least of my worries. When that comes, we've had it. You can't sit around mooning about Judgement Day. That's just silly. Everybody who ever lived has always had his own private Judgment Day to face anyway, and he still has. As far as that goes, nothing's changed at all. — Paul Bowles

I am large. I contain multitudes," I said solemnly. "Especially on Tuesdays. — Simon R. Green

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan

I am large, I contain multitudes — Walt Whitman

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step. — Robert Frenay

As you spend time with the King of kings and the Lord of lords, His attitude becomes your attitude. — Andrew Wommack

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that. — Patti Smith

Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes. — Matt Haig

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live, — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) — Sarah Bakewell

You," she said. She grabbed my wrist and pressed two fingers onto me as if taking my pulse and I stopped breathing. "I know you. I remember you from my youth. You contain multitudes. There is a crush of experience coursing by you. And you want to take every experience on the pulse. — Stephanie Danler

Go waste your poison on someone else. — Stephen King

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want. — T. Harv Eker

We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car. — Andie MacDowell

Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big! — Israelmore Ayivor

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.' — Jerry Saltz