Emily Dickinson Quotes

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

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• I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Hope
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Success
  • Past

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Mind
  • Cheap

• Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Most
  • Rather
  • Reporters

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Tone

• My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Love
  • Husband
  • Emphasis

• Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Challenge

• When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Gold
  • Chinese
  • Coming

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

  

  Anthony Bourdain

• Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Knowledge

• Now who are the individuals who are the greatest benefactors of the living generation of mankind? I should say: Confucius and Lao-Tse; the Buddha; the Prophets of Israel and Judah; Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad; and Socrates.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • She
  • Nature

• When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Men
  • Women

• Over time, I've been more recognized.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Time

• The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • People
  • Work

• I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Crazy
  • Stuff

• No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Career
  • Way