Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • War
  • Parents

• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Game
  • Giving
  • Best

• I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Mars

• Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Doubt

• We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Small
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Action

• Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Real
  • Comedy

• When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Work
  • You
  • Doubt

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Doubt
  • Mood
  • Golden

• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • May
  • Doubt
  • Child

• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Thought
  • Fly
  • Fast

• I get paid to go work with people I've admired since forever, and I get to learn from them? What? I would pay to go sit and be a fly on the wall!

  

  Gage Golightly
  • People
  • Work
  • Forever

• There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Done
  • Job
  • America

• A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

  

  Luanne Rice
  • True
  • Dream
  • Doubt

• In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Mind
  • Spiritual
  • Doubt

• The reason I work with the same people, it's not just an accident.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Work

• I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. That's the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I don't think I bleached my hair until I was 20. I like experimenting for big occasions, though. You've always got to do a bit of a number for the birthday!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Like
  • English
  • Birthday

• I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

  

  Paul Strand
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Doubt
  • Fly