Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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• Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Global

• I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Producer

• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Devil

• The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Writing
  • Story
  • Short

• Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• I'm no producer's kid.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Kid
  • Producer

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Think
  • Start

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• Well when I woke up this morning,There was a note upon my door, Said don't make me no coffee Babe,'Cause I won't be back no more, And that's all she wrote, Dear John, I've sent your saddle home.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Like
  • Color
  • Absence

• People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Heaven

• Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Man
  • Give Up
  • Believe Me

• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Forest
  • Tongue