Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Home
  • Movies

• We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Want
  • Like
  • Where

• I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Mirror

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Music
  • Song
  • Purpose

• Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Done
  • Technology

• One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Why
  • Weird
  • Survival

• I loafe and invite my soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul

• I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified part by part. But Brahma is perfect, and knowledge which is partial can never be a knowledge of him.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided and facilitated by presidents and their administrations.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

  

  Chris Kirkpatrick NSYNC
  • True
  • Honor

• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

  

  Eric Sevareid
  • World
  • Power
  • Honor

• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Men
  • Children
  • Energy

• I take it one play, one game at a time, ... I don't look any further.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Take

• The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Honor