Emily Dickinson Quotes

I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

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• Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • End

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Character
  • Hip Hop

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Desire

• The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Thought
  • Better

• Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower...

  

  Barack Obama
  • Military

• Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fashion

• '...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Faith
  • Islamic

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match

  

  Eminem
  • Job
  • Black
  • Boxing

• If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Freedom
  • Light
  • Joy

• If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.'

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

  

  Alice Ripley

• 'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Done

• I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • School
  • College

• Cool pools from a tired land sink now in the peace of evening Clouds weaken and die. The sun, an orange skull, whispers quietly, becomes an island, & is gone. There they are watching us everything will be dark. The light changed. We were aware knee-deep in the fluttering air as the ships move on trains in their wake.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Light
  • Peace
  • Die

• When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • River
  • Stones
  • Rivers

• If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

  

  Bede Jarrett
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Moving

• I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Light
  • Dark