Emily Dickinson Quotes

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

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• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Caught

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Anniversary

• With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Enjoy

• My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Going

• I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Challenge
  • Yourself
  • Finding

• There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Wanting

• We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Define
  • Blackness

• We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Justice

• A week is a long time in politics.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Politics

• I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Nature
  • You
  • Shy

• Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • New
  • Media
  • Very

• On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Friday
  • June

• What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Food
  • Shelter
  • Clothing

• My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Music
  • God

• Never let yourself be pushed around--but treat the good people great.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Great
  • Treat
  • Good People

• We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • People
  • Giving
  • Support

• I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Family
  • Health
  • Responsibility

• Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely, all of those emotions are about your perception of freedom, or your perception of bondage—every one of them.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Emotion
  • Perception
  • Despair

• We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Free
  • Wealth
  • Continued

• For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Pay
  • Ecstasy
  • Ratio