Julianne Emerson Quotes

Like they'd never seen a hot professor before. You made quite an impression in your turtleneck."
"Ah, yes, the turtleneck. Turtles have that effect on people. ~ Sylvain Reynard

Life is risk. I could get cancer. Or get hit by a car. You could wrap me in bubble wrap and keep me indoors and I could still get sick. I know that I could lose you too. And as much as I don't want to say it, someday you're going to die."
Her voice broke on the last word. "But I choose to love you now and I choose to build a life with you knowing I could lose you. I'm asking you to make that same choice. I'm asking you to take the risk, with me. ~ Sylvain Reynard

Emerson Hart is the love of my life. Unfortunately, I'm not the only love of hers. And therein lies the problem. ~ Kate Sterritt

Big cows,"
thump
"lumps of meat"
thump
. His eyes widened. "Give me milk"
thump
"warm and sweet"
thump. ~ Julianne Donaldson

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states. ~ David Emerson

You don't even know what your body is capable of yet. But I'm going to teach you. You're going to come so many times you won't even remember your own name."
EMERSON ~ Melody Grace

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?" ~ Michael Emerson

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every novel is a debtor to Homer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also, what they have not.
this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fill the hour - that is happiness, to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I stood up, suddenly very upset, and took a step away from him. Philip grabbed the hem of my gown. "Wait," he said, laughing. I looked down at him, my hands clenched into fists. "Please don't leave," he said, a cajoling smile turning his lips up charmingly. "I won't do it again." Well, at least he knew why I was upset. But the idea of him not doing it again? Hah! I raised an eyebrow in deep skepticism. "In the next five minutes," he added with a chuckle. ~ Julianne Donaldson

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is known by the books he reads. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade. ~ Keith Emerson

Live in the sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes

If that was true of Emerson, isn't it ~ Dale Carnegie

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I felt a crack in my defenses - a weak place where truth knifed and twisted and pried for an opening ~ Julianne Donaldson

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is its own excuse for being. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was a record of perpetual discord and inharmony. ~ Charles F. Haanel

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Miss Daventry is fair and true, with eyes of such a beautiful hue! Not quite green, never dull brown: they are the color of the sea, and they are round. Miss Daventry Is true and fair, I love the color of her hair! It shimmers in the candlelight, its amber hue, oh so bright! ~ -Julianne Donaldson Edenbrooke

The poor are only they who feel poor. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works. ~ Donald McCaig