Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Women
  • Friends

• It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Money
  • Funny

• I don't judge people on their personal lives.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Judge
  • Personal

• When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Years
  • Said
  • Opinions

• To imagine means to make images and to move them about inside one's head in new arrangements.

  

  Jacob Bronowski

• Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of 'what if' when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• I do real estate.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Real

• I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • People

• Whenever anybody says what you do isn't good, it's always unflattering and makes me feel uncomfortable. But when the person who's in charge of the United States of America says, 'Not good,' I'm like, 'Oh.' It's a little unflattering.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Good
  • America

• I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Song

• Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

  

  John Prendergast
  • War
  • Peace

• People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

  

  John Cena
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Bodybuilding

• Don't be afraid to show off who you are.

  

  Barbie Ferreira

• A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Mountain

• I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Time
  • Movie

• There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Persons
  • Easy
  • Judging

• In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Regard
  • Explanation
  • Contradiction

• I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Way
  • Quality

• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Diseases
  • Avarice
  • Fickle