Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sweet
Fate

Quotes to Explore

I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

Yotam Ottolenghi
- Great
- Sweet
- Bird
People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

Jackson Browne
- People
- Up
- Time
I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

K. A. Applegate
- Time
- Long
- Writing
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Sam Waterston
- Business
- Career
- Strong
I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!

Edie Brickell
- Kids
- Sweet
- Big
I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

Farrah Fawcett
- People
- Bad
- Sweet