Emily Dickinson Quotes

I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

Emily Dickinson

• Afraid
• September
• Terror

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• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Important
  • Decision

• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Night
  • Star
  • Sun

• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Husband
  • Idea
  • Kid

• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • House
  • You
  • Try

• People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm fearless, to a degree.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Fearless
  • Degree

• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Twice

• The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Same

• I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Nerdy

• He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Learn
  • Deserves
  • Extinction

• It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Alone
  • Rights
  • Farm

• I take a multivitamin, vitamin D, and omega-3 oils every day, and if I'm stressed or run- down, I bulk up on vitamin C and zinc.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Day
  • Everyday

• When they started bumping me off in every film, it became difficult for me to die in different styles. But now I have to start thinking of different ways of getting drunk.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Die

• For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • May
  • Journey

• @JimmyBennett love you for life my Jimmy. You know I've been testing 9 years old lately but unfortunately ain't nobody like you sonny.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Life

• Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

  

  David Harsanyi

• I said roughly that I was starting all over again. I don't think the past buys you anything.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Past
  • Again
  • Starting

• I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.

  

  Louis Oosthuizen
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Wind

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Truth
  • Compassion
  • Afraid

• I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Afraid
  • September
  • Terror