Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Vita Sackville-West

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

Dave Barry

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

David Duchovny

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Anna Quindlen

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

bell hooks

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Denis Diderot

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

D. H. Lawrence

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Dada Vaswani

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

F. Sionil Jose

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

George Edward Woodberry

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

George Woodcock

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Herbert Marcuse

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Isaiah Berlin

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Isabella Rossellini

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

June Jordan