Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Christmas
  • Pie

• I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Physics
  • Helped
  • Exposure

• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Great
  • You
  • Product

• Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Know
  • Morning
  • Blearily

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Positive
  • Try
  • Optimism

• I never drink cow's milk; I always opt for the soya alternative, and when I eat most dairy products, it tends to be in extremely small doses. However, being a vegetarian means I have to get protein from somewhere, so I do eat eggs and cheese about once a week.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Small
  • Never
  • Week

• I'm a very boring person.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Person
  • Very
  • Boring

• I use Shazam all the time.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Time
  • Use

• Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Professional
  • Ego
  • Everyone

• A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Technology

• Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Christian
  • Christ

• The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Promise

• That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Philosophy
  • Knowing
  • Limits

• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Philosophical
  • Plato

• A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Country

• I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

  

  David Friedman

• Truly, with such facts as these before us, we might well faint for fear did we not know that there is a mightier Power above all the hosts of the Prince of Darkness, One Who regards us with feelings of wondrous love, Who is not only able, but yearning, to shield us from the destroyer now, and Who purposes shortly to deliver us altogether from the anxiety, the terror, and the danger, of his assaults. For although the Lord has not yet formally deposed the rebel, and arranged a new government, He does not leave the world entirely to Satan’s mercy. Angels of God penetrate the realms of air, encamp round about them that fear Him, and protect them from the malignant foes to whom they would otherwise fall an easy prey.[72] Nor are their numbers insufficient: the servant of Elisha beheld the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire round about his master.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Faint

• I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • College
  • Theatre

• This is not just a treatment that reduces symptoms.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Treatment
  • Symptoms
  • Reduces

• Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson