Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Jean Vanier

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.

David Bohm

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Democritus

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Jacques Derrida

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Jacques Derrida

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Jacques Derrida

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

Janice Dickinson

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Jean Genet

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Judith Guest

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

James Hillman

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

John Keble

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Josh Billings

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James Russell Lowell

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

John Henry Newman

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

John Wilkins

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Kenneth Burke

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Katherine Dunn

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

Kent Haruf