Emily Dickinson Quotes
Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.
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Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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What between tipping the man who had brought us home, and paying for the broken sculls, and for having been out four hours and a half, it cost us a pretty considerable number of weeks’ pocket-money, that sail. But we learned experience, and they say that is always cheap at any price.
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If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.
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Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.
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The best kind of television should mess with your head.
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I had some personal problems, and I started listening to a lot of radio ministers. I listened every Sunday all day, flipping the dial up and back. So, I heard just about every guy on Sunday. And then I heard Mr. Armstrong, and I said, 'Ah, God has finally shown me the one, I guess.'
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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
