Emily Dickinson Quotes

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Emily Dickinson

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• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Race

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Light

• How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • She
  • Eyes

• For me, poetry is always a search for order.

  

  Elizabeth Jennings
  • Poetry
  • Search

• The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Long
  • American
  • Help

• Time wounds all heels.

  

  Jane Sherwood Ace
  • Time

• I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

  

  Mark Viduka
  • Long
  • Game
  • Lost

• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  

  Ben Chandler
  • Happy
  • Political
  • Hand

• I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Feel
  • More
  • Jewish

• It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Sea

• My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Water
  • Ocean

• When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Director
  • Grow Up

• Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Career
  • Fear

• To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Joy
  • Immortality
  • Possess