Emily Dickinson Quotes

I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.

Emily Dickinson

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Little soldier, little insectYou know war it has no heartIt will kill you in the sunshineOr happily in the the darkWhere kindness is a card gameOr a bent up cigaretteIn the trenches, in the hard rainWith a bullet and a bet.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Up
  • War
  • Kindness

• We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Women
  • Black
  • Study

• It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Up
  • Light
  • River

• It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Bad
  • Vacation

• My greatest fear is speaking in public.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Fear

• It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sleep

• The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. 'What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! FRY HER!! FRY HER!'

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Food
  • Moving
  • Beer

• The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look after itself. (p. 180).

  

  Geoff Dyer

• I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Word Of God
  • Conception

• I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • God

• A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy: a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one could weep because another wept.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • World
  • Alone

• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Die
  • Never
  • Knowing

• We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bird
  • Condition
  • Passions

• I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Bird
  • Knowing
  • Melody