Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
Taraji P. Henson -
I enjoy building more than managing.
Wayne Huizenga -
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush -
I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
Questlove -
I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
Victoria Osteen -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Barbara Mandrell -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh -
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
Farrah Fawcett -
Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
Ted Lindsay -
If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Candice Swanepoel -
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Warren Farrell -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince
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'I have a covenant with God. I cannot ask for anything outside what is written in the covenant. What I will achieve in this world is in a book I am carrying everyday; I just have to open the pages. Outside the book is not mine.'
T. B. Joshua -
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
Aravind Adiga -
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Brett Ratner -
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
Oscar Wilde -
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson