Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.

Spalding Gray

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'

Sylvester Stallone

I feel so privileged as a mom to be part of a significant organization like the March of Dimes that works hard to prevent prematurity and helps moms to have healthy babies.

Thalia

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

Richard Savage

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Andrew Bernstein

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Andrea Dworkin

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Alexander Hamilton

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

Amanda Hocking

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

Al Roker

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Adam Smith

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

Bob Black

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

Kristi Yamaguchi

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Tom Rath