Best things Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

— Ernest Poole

“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening…

— Mohsin Hamid

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

— Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

“One magnifying glass and one moonlit night is not enough to light her ant-like heart on fire. So I’ll just have to approach it…

— Jarod Kintz

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever…

— Marquis de Sade

When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes…

— Fannie Flagg

The presidency is a huge echo chamber magnifying every little thing he does.

— Stephen Hess