Emily Dickinson Quotes

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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• Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Like
  • Saying

• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Imagination
  • Own
  • Capitalism

• For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Small
  • Loss

• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Choice
  • Content
  • Blessings

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
  • Reached

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• 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

• I dream about doing a film about once a week.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dream
  • Doing
  • Week

• Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

  

  S. Ansky
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Computers

• The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Real
  • Father

• Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • You
  • Running

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• I have neither time to live nor to write. I am therefore cheating my art by stealing a few evening hours to write this most inadequate and negligent reply to the courteous and elegant letters of yours.

  

  Peter Paul Rubens
  • Time
  • Live
  • Art

• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Class

• There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Soul
  • Jesus

• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Important
  • Country
  • Culture

• The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Love
  • Receive

• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Experience
  • Soul