Nazzaro Ralph Quotes

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A start is a start, and 'is' is 'is' not 'was'. ~ Ralph Ellison

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?" ~ Charles Williams

Let us be poised, wise and our own today. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically. ~ Ralph Merkle

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is a sublime mistress but an intolerable wife ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in. ~ Ralph Lauren

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work. ~ Ralph Gibson

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where, I wonder, should I have been over the long years across the world without the spasmodic, always unexpected, and totally reliable friendship of companions like Donald Wise, and Ralph Izzard, and Patrick O'Donovan, and David Holden, and Louis Heren, and Sam White, and Richard Scott, and René MacColl, and Stanley Uys, and Ted Levite, and David Walker, and Tim Baistow, and Stanley Burch, and a score more of their kind, at any moment liable to appear through the swing-doors of anywhere between Tuscaloosa and Tonkin and reduce chaos to the healing anodyne of a glass and the shared misfortunes of existence.
(On journalism in "Point of Departure" page 80) ~ James Francis Cameron

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer. ~ Ralph Fiennes

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons. ~ Ralph Merkle

Seek that your last days be your best days. ~ Ralph Venning

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being. ~ Ralph Marston

In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride eradicates all vices but itself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong. ~ Ralph Fiennes

Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism. ~ William Ralph Inge

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically. ~ Ralph Ellison

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow makes us all children again. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson