Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

The Wealth of Nations

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

A Woman's Walk with God: Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.

Where She Went

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

Art Spiegelman

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Ben Stein

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Brian Selznick

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

David Knopfler

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

Donald Ray Pollock

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

Eric S. Raymond

At its best, Purple Ronnie puts little thoughts out there, on very high-volume selling items, that people use to make very personal connections with one another. And I'm actually very proud of that.

Giles Andreae

There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends.

Geoff Johns

The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.

Junot Diaz

If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.

Jim Lee

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

John Boyle O'Reilly