Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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• If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Marriage
  • Trouble
  • Others

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Saved
  • Ours

• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Beginning
  • Never
  • Strange

• The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Single
  • India

• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Technology

• I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Style
  • Season

• I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Up
  • Loving
  • Shakespeare

• It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Today
  • Difficult
  • Year

• I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Body

• It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Me
  • Late

• There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • High
  • Running

• Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • School
  • Inspiration
  • Bands

• I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • World
  • Important
  • Family

• I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

  

  Jessica Mitford
  • Sister

• I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Wish

• I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't that many models who are still doing it at 60.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Work
  • Professional

• I would see these people calling me 'fat' and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me 'Miss Piggy,' and they only referred to me as 'Miss Piggy.' I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Girl

• I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • Family
  • School
  • Father

• It is not correct, and if I said so, I was not correct — I cannot recall if I said it, but I did not say, or if I did, I did not mean to say it.

  

  Bertie Ahern
  • Correct
  • Recall

• Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mother
  • Serious
  • Virtue

• Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

  

  Confucius
  • Heaven
  • Symbols
  • Wise Men

• We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Symbols
  • Inhabit