Emma Quotes

Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.

I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.

By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

Know what you do not know.

The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

You don't know what you don't know.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is able to cope effectively with the ongoing dilemma in the Middle East.