Emily Roebling Quotes

#1. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

David Landes

#2. Judge not, lest you be judged.

Anonymous

#3. Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.

Isabella Bird

#4. If wishes were flying monkeys, we'd all be wearing tiny hats.

E.J. Stevens

#5. I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

George Harrison

#6. In a society without security and stability, there are no intellectuals or businessmen or artists. When man is constantly in fight-or-flight mode he is no better than an animal, with no chance for ideas to be nurtured or dreams to be pursued.

Amish Tripathi

#7. But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#8. God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard driver. He wants to provide.

Anna White

#9. If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. The late Franz Borkenau once said, after he had broken with the Communist Party, that he could no longer put up with the practice of discussing municipal regulations in the categories of Hegelian logic, and Hegelian logic in the spirit of meetings of the town council.

Theodor W. Adorno

#11. Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. The c**k isn't a muscle so it doesn't grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#13. The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

Slavoj Zizek