Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • History
  • Vision

• I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Model

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Want
  • Parent
  • Parenting

• I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Like
  • Fighting
  • Fighter

• I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Go
  • Surfing
  • Too Much

• In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Together
  • Look
  • Fly

• I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Family
  • Mother

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Hope
  • Best

• The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Best
  • Gold
  • Redemption

• I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Done
  • Happen

• I am a cookbook fanatic.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Fanatic
  • Cookbook

• It rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • River

• Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • War
  • Together
  • Free

• I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Batman

• The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Believe
  • Confident
  • Band Member

• The wild thing is that when I'm in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can't control anybody's destiny, so it's really unsettling.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Control
  • Band

• I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Book
  • Leaving

• The hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Parents
  • Gay
  • Rollerblading

• If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Mother
  • Helping
  • Sick

• Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson