Emily Dickinson Quotes
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.Emily Dickinson
Quotes to Explore
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt -
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton U2 -
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman -
The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
Adam Mansbach -
But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong -
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl Sagan -
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
P. J. O'Rourke -
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Kate Millett -
The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
Ban Ki-moon -
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor Swift -
Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
Jack Levine -
As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.
Samuel Adams -
The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;The chest contrived a double debt to pay,A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I don't read a lot of books but love magazines like 'Psychology Today.' It's great for getting quick facts.
Dylan Lauren -
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
Gaines Adams -
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.
Paul Erdos -
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
Emily Dickinson