Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

Zadie Smith

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Anna Quindlen

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Charles Babbage

I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.

Denis Dutton

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Don Marquis

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Diane Wakoski

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

Geri Halliwell

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Howard Nemerov

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

John Betjeman

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Josh Billings

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

John Dewey

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

John Dewey

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Jupiter Hammon

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

Joss Whedon

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

Karl Pilkington

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Keith Richards

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Nikki Giovanni