Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

Mary Karr

All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Martin Villeneuve

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Og Mandino

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Art Buchwald

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Ana Castillo

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

Bill Nye

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Chinua Achebe

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

Douglas Coupland

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

Daisaku Ikeda

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

Daniel Pennac

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Eric Hoffer

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Elfriede Jelinek

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Gloria Steinem

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Ishmael Reed

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

John le Carre

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

Janice Dickinson

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

John Naisbitt

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx