Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Suzanne Collins

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Salman Rushdie

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

Taslima Nasrin

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Vita Sackville-West

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Walter Lippmann

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

Wyndham Lewis

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Natalie Goldberg

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

Anthony Horowitz

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

Asne Seierstad

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Anne Tyler

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

Barbara Walters

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Camille Paglia

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

David Mamet

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Glenn Beck

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

Gregory Bateson

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Gustave Flaubert

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Heston Blumenthal

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Joseph Brodsky

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Josh Billings