Top 32 Short Emerson Quotes
#1. We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.
Raymond Radiguet
#2. When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.
Donald Rumsfeld
#3. The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. Life is too short to waste ... 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.
Shemar Moore
#13. I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time
Emil Zatopek
#14. Vaults. In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections. Hundreds of writers may be found in every long-civilized nation, who for a short time believe,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.
Frank Caplan
#16. Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.
Marc Bulger
#17. When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended with self-serving motives. Tribal people, anthropologists have shown, often single out despised in-laws for allegations of witchcraft, a convenient
Steven Pinker
#20. I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#21. Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.
Todd Strasser
#23. You shall not leave me in that temper.
I should be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!
Emily Bronte
#24. A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.
Roger Ebert
#28. Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.
Tony Goldwyn
