Emily Dickinson Quotes

I took my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.I aimed my pebble, but myself Was all the one that fell. Was it Goliath was too large, Or only I too small?

Emily Dickinson

• World
• Power
• Small
• Hand
• Bold

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• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Movie
  • Black

• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Want
  • End
  • Credit

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Lifetime
  • Foot
  • Tibet

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Victory
  • Will

• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Cool
  • Face
  • Bus

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Bee
  • Snake

• It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Made
  • Admiration
  • Distant

• It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Language

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • World
  • May
  • Single

• We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

  

  David Christian
  • Society
  • Hand
  • Sun

• When you're doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it's most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we're all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I would never get into the music industry per se, but listening to music really helps me to concentrate. It's just a nice way for me to vibe and chill. There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.

  

  Haley Pullos
  • Life
  • Music
  • Love

• I took my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.I aimed my pebble, but myself Was all the one that fell. Was it Goliath was too large, Or only I too small?

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • World
  • Power
  • Small