Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

William Ames

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

Ava DuVernay

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Freya Stark

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Graham Chapman

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

George Herbert Mead

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Karl Marx

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Morris Raphael Cohen

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Noam Chomsky

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

I think it's entirely possible to have a career in fashion and raise a child. Stella McCartney is on her fourth child and remains both a fashion icon and a great mom.

Rodger Berman

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Sigmund Freud

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Sun Tzu

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

Talib Kweli

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

Walter Russell Mead

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

Anthony Horowitz

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope