Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Something

• I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Right
  • Coffee
  • Ingredients

• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Hope
  • Age
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• Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Day
  • Dog
  • Same

• I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
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  • Dress

• I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Dancing
  • Percent
  • OK

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • World
  • Men
  • Business

• Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Father
  • Child
  • Parenting

• I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

  

  Beck
  • Up
  • Time
  • Band

• It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • High
  • You
  • Young

• Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Money
  • Wrong
  • Stock

• Ever since my United Nations work, for instance, they've been saying that I've gone into politics. The United Nations is a nonpolitical body.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Work

• The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Struggle
  • Teacher

• The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Pain

• If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• Writers, artists, and commentators on websites are detained or thrown into jail when they reflect on democracy, opening up, reform and reason. This is the reality of China.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Democracy

• No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Interest
  • Regard

• I believe it's my position as a partner to make the other feel secure. I'm very loving and very into my partners when I am with them. I just want them to feel safe.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Believe
  • Partner
  • Position

• There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Writer
  • Only
  • Unemployment

• When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

  

  Allen West
  • Up
  • Country
  • May

• It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson