Emily Dickinson Quotes

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

Emily Dickinson

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• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Home
  • Society
  • Government

• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Years
  • More
  • Contentment

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Creativity

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Audience
  • Expectation
  • Satisfied

• We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Will
  • Expression
  • Harmony

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Contentment

• A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Live
  • Desire

• We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Expectation

• I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Music
  • Success
  • Expectation

• There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Expectation

• I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Wedding
  • Expectation

• The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

  

  Andrew Card
  • House
  • Democracy
  • Expectation

• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  

  James K. Polk
  • World
  • Country
  • Peace

• When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Emotional

• To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Read

• Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Sad

• You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

  

  William P. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Mess
  • Melody

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Expectation
  • Contentment
  • Gain