Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
-
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
-
I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
-
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
-
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
-
A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
-
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
-
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
-
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
-
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
-
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
-
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
-
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
-
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
-
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
-
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
-
We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
-
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
-
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
-
Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art 'lives' where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the 'self' vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
-
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
-
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
