Emily Dickinson Quotes

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

Emily Dickinson

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• Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Working
  • Wonderful
  • Been

• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Computer

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • History
  • Human

• When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Unkind

• A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Different
  • Bad
  • True

• The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • Time
  • Why
  • History

• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Rest

• In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Failure

• For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Power
  • Memories
  • Despair

• If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Today
  • Wisdom

• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Things

• It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Responsible
  • Machines

• Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath.

  

  John Waite
  • Think
  • Breath
  • Catch

• Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Eternity
  • Breath
  • Disappointed