Great Quote

[beatsme]

I got this at random from quotes4all.net

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

-Mark Twain

 

[iMetroid]

I really needed to read that. The only reason I'm up at 11:58 at night is because of problems I'm having with "friends" preventing me from sleeping. Thanks.

 

[beatsme]

I really needed to read that. The only reason I'm up at 11:58 at night is because of problems I'm having with "friends" preventing me from sleeping. Thanks.

you bet

 

[SamIchi]

http://en.thinkexist.com/

This is a good Quotes site. You can register for free and add favorite quotes you like and submit them it they aren't already in the database. Here's a quote the goes along the same line as the one you posted.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like this guy, he's got good quotes.

Here's another one that got me confused.

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shouldn't it be "...how would man..."? Or is this also proper? Is this old english or somethin?

 

[Allotriophagy]

"I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T!"

As true today as it was then.

 

[Allotriophagy]

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shouldn't it be "...how would man..."? Or is this also proper? Is this old english or somethin?

It is just English. It means men would take more notice of them. Try saying it to yourself, pausing after 'years' and making the rest an exclamation.