Emily Dickinson Quotes

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

Emily Dickinson

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• I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Welcome

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Star

• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Aesthetic

• Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Children
  • She
  • Age

• I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • Vacation

• If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Amazing
  • Romantic

• I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

  

  Andrew Greeley

• We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • Stop

• Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Life
  • School
  • Power

• I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Great

• I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Truth
  • Lyrics
  • Honesty

• I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Mistake

• A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Real
  • Space
  • Dog

• Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Down

• How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? 'Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich.'

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Prayer
  • Famous

• A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Reach
  • Tiptoe
  • Dusty

• Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Prayer
  • Reach
  • Denied