Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Trying
  • She
  • Culture

• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Roses

• The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Small
  • Rights
  • Senate

• I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Think
  • Game
  • Black

• I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Gift
  • Civilization
  • Remind

• In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Past
  • Prepare

• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sin
  • Greatest
  • Boring

• The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Capitalism

• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• Then he tried to recall the lessons of Mr. Wisdom. 'it is I myself, eternal Spirit, who drives this Me, the slave, along that ledge. I ought not to care whether he falls and breaks his neck or not. It is not he that is real, it is I – I – I.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Wisdom

• People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Support

• If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Stupid
  • Angry

• Kisses sweeter than Tupelo honey.Little bit crazy like New Orleans.Memphis blue and Daytona sunny.Soft as cotton in some cut-off jeans.Don't you know, ain't nothing in the whole wide world like a Southern girl.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • World
  • Girl
  • Crazy

• That'll be the day - when you say goodbye.That'll be the day - when you make me cry.You say you're gonna leave - you know it's a lie, 'causeThat'll be the day when I die.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Die
  • Goodbye

• Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • True

• I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the Stars Home.'

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Home

• Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Good
  • Political
  • Evil

• I'd love to be on a show like 'ER.' Just watching it is like, 'Phew.' I loved watching 'Veronica Mars.' 'Buffy' was a big... I loved 'Buffy.' I would go out of my way to watch 'Buffy.'

  

  Enrico Colantoni

• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  

  John L. Lewis
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Intelligent

• If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Alone
  • Lord
  • Strength

• When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.

  

  Benjamin Hoff
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Simple

• The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Children
  • Teacher
  • Difference

• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson