Attitude Waldo Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia was an early literary manifestation of a young woman who takes endless selfies and posts them with vicious captions calling herself fat and ugly. She is at once her own documentarian and the reflexive voice that says she is unworthy of documentation. She sends her image into the world to be seen, discussed, and devoured, proclaiming that the ordinariness or ugliness of her existence does not remove her right to have it. — Alana Massey

Of all the people in the world who could've won the seat next to mine at that playoff game ... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me. — Julie Johnson

The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win. — John Fowles

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism ... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. — Brandi L. Bates

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't you sometimes get a little tired of being so constantly outraged? - Mr Marsh — Liesel Schwarz

Because we fear a zombie apocalypse? And we hope they're color-blind? — Chloe Neill

This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions. — Ralph Waldo Trine

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be brave enough to do the loving thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are. — Francesca Lia Block

James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life. — Cynthia Ozick

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a sexy little dance and I like to take the lead. — Lisa Vanderpump

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning. — Ian McEwan

Power dwells with cheerfulness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide. — Larry David

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club. — Ralph Waldo Emerson