Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
  • Women
  • Guy

• No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Nation
  • Calendar
  • July

• It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Yoga

• I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Doors

• The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Live
  • Action

• Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Help
  • I Can
  • Defense

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Family
  • Father
  • Italian

• Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Remember

• Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Movies
  • Try

• I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• Oh, God, will you SHUT UP! GODDAMMIT, WILL YOU SHUT YOUR FUCKIN' MOUTH! YOU'RE HIS WHORE! OH! OHHHH!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God

• Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Live
  • True
  • Bible

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

  

  Eric Walters
  • Power

• It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

  

  Noah Baumbach
  • Life
  • Happening
  • Adjust

• Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

  

  William P. Young
  • Pain
  • Hurt
  • Grace

• The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Horse
  • Grind