Emersonian Quotes & Sayings

Dreams have a way of turning into nightmares. — Erin Morgenstern

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things. — Phil Robertson

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek. — Hillary Clinton

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. — James Thurber

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered. — Chris Hadfield

I'm tired of the music industry these days! They polish everything until it no longer sounds real. The raw uncut sound is something I think no genre but alternative and Aerow music retain. — Clive Langer

The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William. — Harold Bloom

I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door. — Beverly Lewis

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thing is stable until it's not. — Michael Selden

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level. — Oswald Chambers

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent. — Chris Asplen

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself. — Sally Hawkins

The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow. — Harold Bloom

It seemed truly frightening that it was only by sheer chance that she had met Nick. It could so easily not have happened and then she would have had a shadowy, half-alive existence, like some sort of woodland creature who never sees sunlight, never even knowing how much she could love and how much she could be loved. Elisabeth once said - very definitely and severely - that the right man didn't complete you, you have to find happiness yourself, and Alice nodded agreeably, while thinking to herself, 'Oh, but yes he does. — Liane Moriarty