Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Patrick O'Brian

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Paul Theroux

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Samuel Pepys

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Anton Chekhov

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Anthony Horowitz

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Adam Smith

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Douglas Coupland

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Dean Koontz

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Elias Canetti

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.

Geoff Johns

I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

Greg Mortenson

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

William Congreve

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

Liev Schreiber

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

J. J. Abrams