Emily Dickinson Quotes

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

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• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• Writing is agony. I hate it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Agony

• Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Design
  • Safety
  • Safe

• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Safe

• Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Safe
  • Ever
  • Meat

• Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Security
  • Prosperity

• The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Why
  • Safe
  • Vampire

• I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Writing
  • Joy
  • Writers

• I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Brain
  • Enough
  • Rooms

• We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Party
  • Safe

• We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Bad
  • Sorry
  • Safe

• Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Judgment
  • Safe
  • Separate

• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Done
  • Brain
  • Tears

• Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • True

• And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Children
  • Play
  • Wind

• Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Beautiful
  • Place
  • Safe

• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Women
  • She
  • Belief

• The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Persons
  • Safe
  • Extermination

• In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Unkind
  • Unkindness

• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

  

  George Washington
  • Soul
  • Discipline
  • Army

• Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Safe
  • Agony
  • Raves