Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Samuel Johnson

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Francoise Sagan

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Azar Nafisi

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

Kate Millett

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

George William Russell

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Patricia Hill Collins

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

Richard Dawkins

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Thomas Friedman

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Van Morrison

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

William Ames

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Edsger Dijkstra

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

Sean Penn

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

Dan Brown

My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.

John Bytheway