Emily Dickinson Quotes

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• I want to help people; that's it.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Help
  • Want

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • California
  • Places
  • Software

• My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Want
  • Car
  • Buildings

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Men
  • Today
  • Doubt

• Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Culture
  • Faith

• I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Champion
  • I Can

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • You
  • Better
  • Overcoming

• Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Up
  • Start
  • Victory

• We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.

  

  Walid Shoebat
  • Star
  • Stars
  • Jerusalem

• Yes, you can-if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Stop

• We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.8910

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • America
  • Stop

• I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.

  

  Martin Amis
  • World
  • Culture
  • Hand

• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  

  Emily Dickinson
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