Emily Dickinson Quotes

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

Emily Dickinson

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• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

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• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

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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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• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

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• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

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• I don't know anything about music.

  

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• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

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• Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

  

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• I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

  

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• Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.

  

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• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

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  • Simple

• I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

  

  Jay Parini
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• The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

  

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• In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

  

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• A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

  

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• We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

  

  Martin Van Buren
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• Be stimulated by rejection.

  

  Bob Gill
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• If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Men
  • Step
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• Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Victory
  • Break
  • Purple