Quotes for All
Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener…. She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself. Renata Adler
…for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white. Alan Watts
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side. Agnes Repplier
A good intention but fixed and resolute – bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter-ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not prayer also a study of truth,–a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of … Read more
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter. Ralph Bunche
Fig tree, how long it’s been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of … Read more
The question of woman’s work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman’s rights as of woman’s mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.
R. Heber Newton