Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beginning
  • Solitude
  • Limit

• Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Safe
  • Turkey

• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
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• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
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• I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • You
  • Small

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Real
  • Success
  • Man

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Media

• There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Come

• As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • War
  • History
  • Democracy

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• I like to dress up every now and then.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Now
  • Dress

• My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Life

• I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Family
  • American
  • Veterans

• I remember there was one summer - I think I was 13 years old - that was literally defined by watching 'Beavis and Butt-head' with my friends.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Summer

• I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

  

  John Cena
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Control

• Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Summer
  • Fishing