Emily Dickinson Quotes

That no Flake of snow fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

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• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Snow
  • Forest
  • Tourism

• So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fire
  • Snow
  • Ending

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Snow
  • Drive
  • Miles

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• 'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Red

• They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Snow
  • Nasty
  • Horses

• I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Day
  • Prayer

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  

  Edith Stein
  • True
  • Soul
  • Single

• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Snow

• For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor’s mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Children
  • House
  • Words

• In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was TWELVE! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow-together! And I hadn't done drugs.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Done
  • Together
  • Snow

• I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Prayer

• Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Important
  • Snow

• When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer
  • Changes

• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Excitement

• I really love storytelling.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Love
  • Really
  • Storytelling

• That no Flake of snow fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Prayer
  • Snow
  • Pagan