Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Life
  • Real
  • Training

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Lost

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Life
  • Jail

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • High
  • Success

• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Better

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Never

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• I know April, May and June are a few unbearable months, and working out in a gym and sweating in such dirty hot, sticky, humid weather puts me off. The best way is to swim. I feel so fresh and rejuvenated after swimming, and I believe it's one of the best mode to fitness during summers.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Believe
  • May
  • Gym

• ''Waterloo was won,'' quoted Rackham, ''on the playing fields of Eton.'' 'What the hell does that mean?' asked Carn Carby. 'You never even went to Eton.' 'It was an analogy,' said Rackham. 'If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • War
  • Childhood

• All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Stage

• When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life