Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

Karin Slaughter

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Lester Bangs

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Moliere

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Oswald Spengler

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Phyllis McGinley

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Rosie O'Donnell

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Sandra Cisneros

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Stephane Hessel

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

James Herriot

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

Richard Dawkins

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

Richard Dawkins

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Bernard Williams

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Eknath Easwaran

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

Gregory Bateson

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Harry Frankfurt

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

Howard Rheingold

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Mencius

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

Paul Krugman

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes