Ralph Macchio Quotes

The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together. ~ Ralph Macchio

What kind of belt do you have? ~ Ralph Macchio

I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment. ~ Ralph Macchio

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold. ~ S.E. Hinton

Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding. ~ Ralph Macchio

There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres. ~ Ralph Macchio

I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in. ~ Ralph Macchio

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best of life is conversation. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The enormous spotlight that focused on King, combined with the construction of Rosa Parks as a saintly symbol, hid the women's long struggle in the dimly lit background, obscuring the origins of the MIA and erasing women from the movement. For decades, the Montgomery bus boycott has been told as a story triggered by Rosa Park's spontaneous refusal to give up her seat followed by the triumphant leadership of men like Fred Gray, Martin Luther King, Jr., E. D. Nixon, and Ralph Abernathy. While these men had a major impact on the emerging protest movement, it was black women's decade-long struggle against mistreatment and abuse by white bus drivers and police officers that launched the boycott. Without an appreciation for the particular predicaments of black women in the Jim Crow South, it is nearly impossible to understand why thousands of working-class and hundreds of middle-class black women chose to walk rather than ride the bus for 381 days. ~ Danielle L. McGuire

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it. ~ Sheryl Lee Ralph

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. ~ Ralph Ellison

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cunning is strength withheld. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. ~ Ralph Nader

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most effective way to prevent what's bad is to promote what's good. The best way to influence behavior is not to control and regulate, but to inspire and motivate. You get more for your efforts when they're applied in a positive direction. Instead of fighting against what you dislike, work to build and support what you value and desire. The answer to despair is not to despise it, for that only adds to it. The answer is to overwhelm it with goodness and love. Focus your attention and energy on what works, and make more of it. Celebrate what is good and right, useful and valuable, and allow it to grow. Nurture, promote and support what you love about life. Delight in the good things, and give the power of your joy to them. Be a positive force by acting with positive purpose. Give your awareness and energy to the good side of life, and make it stronger than ever. ~ Ralph S. Marston Jr.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes. ~ Ralph Klein

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology. ~ Ralph Bunche

There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves. ~ Ralph Smart

Never read a book that is not a year old. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know." ~ Ralph Fiennes

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. ~ Brandi L. Bates

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a part and parcel of God. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations. ~ Ralph Fiennes

Faith is when music stops but you continue dancing. ~ Rudzani Ralph

Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon. ~ Ralph Ellison

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be? ~ Ralph Ellison

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth ~ Ralph Parlette

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. ~ Ralph Fiennes

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us. ~ Ralph Peters

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine. ~ Ralph Boston

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Up and away for life! be fleet!-
The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
And hems in life with narrowing fence.
Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
Embalmed by purifying cold;
The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
The snow is no ignoble shroud,
The moon thy mourner, and the cloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand Li, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armour, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day. Such is the cost of raising an army of 100,000 men. ~ Ralph D. Sawyer

Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform. ~ Ralph Lauren

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,
than Romeo. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson