Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

John Ralston Saul

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

Jean Vanier

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

David Antin

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

David Bohm

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

Dave Eggers

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Democritus

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Democritus

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

John Michael Greer

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

James Hillman

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Janette Turner Hospital

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Jean Houston

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

John le Carre

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

James Russell Lowell

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

John Locke

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Jean Rostand

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Jonathan Swift

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal