Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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• When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Spiritual
  • Baby
  • Garden

• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • She
  • Book
  • Reality

• Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.

  

  Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Age
  • Things
  • Wonderful

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Think
  • Daughter
  • Suits

• The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Opportunity

• I was definitely a Daddy's boy.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Boy
  • Definitely
  • Daddy

• I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Good
  • House

• Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Dark
  • Child
  • Celebrity

• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Better

• When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Life
  • Hungry
  • Lion

• I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Value
  • Thought

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Think
  • Drink
  • Drunk

• I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • See
  • Hard
  • Discouraged

• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.

  

  Berlie Doherty

• When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Necessary
  • Detests

• Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Melinda Gates

• Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

  

  Tacitus
  • Life
  • Lovers
  • Usual

• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Selfish
  • Aim
  • Experiment