Emily Dickinson Quotes

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• I'm an all-or-nothing person.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Person

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Sad

• Valuation is what people are willing to pay.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Pay
  • Willing

• 'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Giving

• True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • True
  • Success
  • Freedom

• No amount of money today could possibly give me the thrill that first $400 check gave me. My first story was entitled, 'Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars.' Metcalf changed it to 'Under the Moons of Mars.' It was later published in book form as A Princess of Mars.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Money
  • Book
  • Today

• The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Violence
  • Ego

• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Education

• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Live

• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Age

• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mind

• In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Old

• There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.

  

  Johnny Weir
  • Hand
  • Sleep

• Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, underground caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is! It is all the work of the Devil!

  

  Otto Dix
  • Work
  • War
  • Fire

• Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Facts
  • Curiosity
  • Creatures

• A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sky
  • Butterfly
  • Majesty