Lia Emerson Quotes

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! ~ Elizabeth Peters

The first point of courtesy must always be truth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can find my biography in every fable that I read. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We were all quiet for a few moments before I broke the silence by saying, in my best upper-crust-girls'-school voice, "I am sure that all of you are really just suffering from some horrible disease, and that I should feel nothing but pity for you. If you let me go, I will organize a charity function that you will not believe. It will be, as our ancestors used to say, 'epic.'"
There was some furious whispering before Bram responded with, "Ah, thank you, Miss, but we're already dead."
I bit my lip. I was starting to crumble. ~ Lia Habel

I felt something fall away inside. Some floor, and from beneath it boiled up something dark, black and bitter, craving vengeance. ~ Kevin Emerson

People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're alive. ~ Francesca Lia Block

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses for ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only Lia would use the name she'd been born with as her fake name. ~ Anonymous

The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained ... it is impossible to get anything without this price. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated ... ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can be wrong with man and right with God. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

As Luke would have it, what ends with crucifixion does not merely reappear restored. Resurrection declares and presents the unrecognizably new, even as traces of the familiar remain. ~ Jay Emerson Johnson

A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs. ~ Francesca Lia Block

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!
Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seriously,let me talk to her when she wakes up. Girl-to-girl."
"No offense, Chas, but you'd scare the crap out of her."
"Want to say that to my face, Coalhouse?"
"What's left of it. ~ Lia Habel

On the last page he'd written simply, She's so beautiful. ~ Lia Habel