Emersonian Self Quotes

#1. Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

Samuel Rutherford

#2. But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.

Brenna Yovanoff

#3. Today, I look forward and I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

Jane McGonigal

#4. The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

Joe Henderson

#5. Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.
Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

#6. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. When I came here, it stunned me at first to realize how much what I had thought of as civilization was really just advertising and marketing, incessant urgings to buy, Buy, BUY. from Dead Cat Bounce

Sarah Graves

#8. The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Carly Simon

#9. I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

Donald Cargill

#10. You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Leonard Nimoy

#11. Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

John Sununu

#12. I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Marcus Garvey

#13. The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And the more he experienced the everyday life of the peasant, the more he denounced them as savage and barbaric.

Orlando Figes

#14. A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.

Harold Bloom

#16. Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew my mother never visited without one. The pin I thought would be a comfort in case of emergency.

Megan Whalen Turner

#17. The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William.

Harold Bloom