Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Man

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Language
  • Years
  • Flowers

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Art

• I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Done
  • Many
  • Liked

• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Free
  • Action

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Human

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Better
  • Whiskey

• I'm a serial monogamist.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Serial

• I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Small
  • Still
  • Dragon

• With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Audience
  • Connection

• 'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Game

• Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Rest
  • Integrity
  • Cake

• The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
  • Behavior
  • Blues

• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Courage
  • Virtue
  • Point

• Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Ends

• The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Real
  • Education
  • Control

• We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson