Emily Dickinson Quotes

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Emily Dickinson

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• Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Positive
  • Blood
  • White

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • You
  • Easy

• This guy obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bedsheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Bad

• Some people say accident, it may be an accident, it may be something else. The (helicopter) was very well equipped, this was my (helicopter) the one I am flying all the time, I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked... either there was some side wind or the instruments failed or there was an external factor.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• He's put a lock on the door of the House of Commons and he refuses to face the people of Canada through their elected representatives

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • House
  • Door

• I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Control

• If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time

• The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Character

• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Learning

• Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Alcohol

• When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

  

  Mark Takano
  • Gay

• There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • People
  • Songs
  • Notion

• I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Process
  • First
  • Learned

• I'm really 100 per cent invested in 'Suburgatory' right now - I'm really focused on that and really like taking it all in. It's so much fun and I just love this character and I love the guys I work with so I'm just enjoying this right now.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Care
  • Flying
  • Balloon

• God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Surprise
  • Capacity