Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

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• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Work
  • Why
  • Pasta

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Record
  • Boring

• I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Want
  • Water
  • Basically

• Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Closely
  • Aligned
  • Qaeda

• It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Fun

• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Power
  • Exercise

• I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Champion
  • Sure
  • Awe

• I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Game

• The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Limits

• My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm more a competitive person.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Person
  • More
  • Competitive

• Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Strong

• I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory. I don't want to see the Republican party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people.

  

  Margaret Chase Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Never take anything for granted.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• My buddies all still make fun of me about the whole 'Leprechaun' thing, and I'm proud of that movie. I'm just as proud of that work as I am of anything else that I've done. I feel like where I was in my career at the time, I committed to the character.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• We in the FBI have created a malware repository and analysis tool known as the Binary Analysis Characterization and Storage System, or BACSS, which provides near real-time investigative information. BACSS helps us link malware in different jurisdictions and paint a picture of cyber threats worldwide.

  

  James Comey
  • Time
  • Different
  • Real

• 'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Different
  • Book
  • Couple

• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Team
  • Mindset

• The shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger’s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.

  

  William Wetmore Story
  • Shadow
  • Twilight
  • Ancient

• It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • People
  • Giving
  • Environment

• I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson