quotes about Waldo Emerson

“Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...”

“If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.”

Source : "Ubiquitous cheating means sport has no level playing field" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

“The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.”

“But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.”

“The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.”

“Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”

“Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.”

Source : Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”

“The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.”

“Beautiful faces are those that wear whole-souled honesty printed there.”

Source : "Ellen P. Allerton's Walls of Corn, and Other Poems".