Emily Dickinson Quotes

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

Emily Dickinson

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• In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • You
  • Wish
  • Animals

• My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Heart
  • You
  • Break

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Wish
  • Try

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Hope
  • Wish

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Me
  • Wish

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • Model

• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• I want to see the king.Wonderful. I'm glad for you.Why are you so glad?Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Work
  • Home
  • Interesting

• I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Man

• Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • God

• Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Important
  • Science
  • Simple

• An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Wish
  • Break
  • Human Heart