Quotes About Emmerson

#1. NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.

Jenifer Mohammed

#2. She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all.

Miranda Emmerson

#3. Shadows were easily ignored even when they had great personalities.

Eve Lieu

#4. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.

Charles Emmerson

#6. His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.

Charles Emmerson

#7. Circumstances could change quickly at the outer edges of the world, bound as they were to the global economy, yet distant from its heart.

Charles Emmerson

#8. It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.

Charles Emmerson

#9. Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

Tanya Tucker

#10. One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.

Bindi Irwin

#11. The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Joel Gretsch

#12. I feel as if I'm disappearing. I wake, I work, I eat, I sleep. No family, no great career. I could disappear tomorrow, like Iolanthe

Miranda Emmerson

#13. Be the best at what you're good at

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#14. I am aware I sound like a Marxist Victor Meldrew but, guess what, I'm over 50 and I don't give a fuck.

Mark Thomas

#15. Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

Cecile Richards

#16. Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.

Charles Emmerson

#17. I'm not comfortable with comfort. I'm only comfortable when I'm in a place where I'm constantly learning and growing.

Kanye West

#18. a world fair celebrated the progress of the nations of the world. It did not investigate its underpinnings.

Charles Emmerson

#19. External powers, rather than providing a helping hand, preferred to wield the carving knife.

Charles Emmerson

#20. Leaving the person I love in danger and continuing to live on is the same as being dead.
-Hyuga, Natsume

Tachibana Higuchi

#21. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

Charles Emmerson

#23. New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.

Charles Emmerson

#24. Dear lord in heaven. "Oh my god," I say. He looks like a fucking Highlander ready for a ball before the battle.

Karina Halle

#25. A splatter of rain on my skin, but its bright and sunny under the blue sky and Jason's there, and we almost kiss but everything changes and were at that party where we met.

Beth Revis

#26. Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

Charles Emmerson

#27. As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be acclaimed and discarded, giving full reign to the fickle fortunes of war.

Charles Emmerson

#28. How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?

Miranda Emmerson

#29. A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

Charles Emmerson

#30. Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

Charles Emmerson

#31. But life. It rushes by and then you think you'll see people... You think you'll do things and have time for this and time for that... And there is never time. This is what I have learned, Anna, I have learned that there is never as much time as you think there is. -
(Ottmar)

Miranda Emmerson

#32. Seek the Babe with Brother One
Honour the Brother with his Blade of Souls
Worship the Mother with her Shield of Stars
Remember the Knight with Demons Dead
Respect them all - for all are One

Peter M. Emmerson

#33. I feel like I could disappear because I'm not real to other people.

Miranda Emmerson

#34. The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

Charles Emmerson

#35. A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. Among Europe's Great Powers only Austria-Hungary remained without a colonial empire.

Charles Emmerson