Top 100 Emanuel Quotes

#1. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#2. Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result ... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

Emanuel Lasker

#3. There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

Rahm Emanuel

#4. Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

Emanuel Ax

#5. Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.

Rahm Emanuel

#7. The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Emanuel Celler

#8. We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#9. First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

Emanuel Cleaver

#10. What an annoying mad thing love is!

Emanuel Schikaneder

#11. Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

Emanuel Azenberg

#12. The sky is an enormous man.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#13. We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

Rahm Emanuel

#14. Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

Emanuel Cleaver

#15. The American people ... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Rahm Emanuel

#16. Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#17. A person who knows all that is good and all that is true
as much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#18. I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

Emanuel Celler

#19. True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

Emanuel Geibel

#20. Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#21. All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

Emanuel Ax

#22. Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#23. When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.

Eric Massa

#24. And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

Rahm Emanuel

#25. Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#26. Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#27. First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#28. In the Christian world ... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#29. The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#30. I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

Emanuel Lasker

#31. Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#32. America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.

Emanuel Cleaver

#33. Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Emanuel Celler

#34. The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we've canceled basically our missile defense system undercutting the Czech Republic in Poland. We've I think not dealt with Iran with the kind of resolve that would show that we understand the nature of that threat.

Rahm Emanuel

#35. I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#36. Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.

Elliott Abrams

#37. We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

Emanuel Celler

#38. The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#39. I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#40. crashes are not randomly occurring lightning bolts; they are the consequence of the madness of crowds who are busy avoiding the last mania as they participate in what will turn out to be the current one.

Emanuel Derman

#41. When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Walter Kirn

#42. People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

Emanuel Celler

#43. If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

Emanuel Celler

#44. To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#45. We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

Emanuel Cleaver

#46. An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

Emanuel Lasker

#47. I would love to see Wladimir Klitschko fight Antonio Tarver for many reasons. One is Tarver talks a lot; he would build up a big fight. And Tarver is coming off of a great victory. So I think he would be a good opponent.

Emanuel Steward

#48. All shadows whisper of the sun.

Emanuel Carnevali

#49. A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Emanuel Lasker

#50. I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Emanuel Celler

#51. We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#52. Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#53. My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#54. That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#55. I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

#56. I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

Emanuel Lasker

#57. We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

Emanuel Cleaver

#58. The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.

Emanuel Lasker

#59. The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.

Kerry Emanuel

#60. When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

Emanuel Steward

#61. For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

Emanuel Celler

#62. Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Emanuel Celler

#63. I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport.

Emanuel Steward

#64. The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#65. After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.

Paul Heyse

#66. I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

Emanuel Ax

#67. Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#68. Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values

Rahm Emanuel

#69. When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#70. On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

Emanuel Lasker

#71. Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

Emanuel Lasker

#72. Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much
less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#73. Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'

Ezekiel Emanuel

#74. When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

Emanuel Ax

#75. Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Rick Perlstein

#76. In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

Rahm Emanuel

#77. The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion ...

Emanuel Swedenborg

#78. In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions

Emanuel Swedenborg

#79. We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Emanuel Ax

#80. Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized ...

Emanuel Lasker

#81. Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

Emanuel Lasker

#82. We are, because God is.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#83. Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

Emanuel Cleaver

#84. My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#85. I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#86. The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

Emanuel Ax

#87. As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

Emanuel Celler

#88. The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#89. We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

Rahm Emanuel

#90. Proxy rules: A "proxy" is a document in which the shareholder appoints someone (typically management) to cast his vote for one or more specified actions.

Steven L. Emanuel

#91. Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.

Lynn Emanuel

#92. I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Rahm Emanuel

#93. For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#94. We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Rahm Emanuel

#95. The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

Emanuel Celler

#96. A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

Emanuel Ax

#97. It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

Emanuel Celler

#98. I'm one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.

Lynn Emanuel

#99. And when the man Rook had dubbed the unholy spawn off Rahm Emanuel and Gordon Gekko wanted something, "no" came at your own risk.

Richard Castle

#100. How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

Emanuel Ax

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