Emily Dickinson Isolation Quotes & Sayings

A gift
its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you
may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Clean communities, healthy citizens. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your literary men, and your politicians, and so do the whole clan of the enlightened among us, essentially differ in these points. They have no respect for the wisdom of others; but they pay it off by a very full measure of confidence in their own. With them it is a sufficient motive to destroy an old scheme of things, because it is an old one. As to the new, they are in no sort of fear with regard to the duration of a building run up in haste; because duration is no object to those who think little or nothing has been done before their time, and who place all their hopes in discovery. — Edmund Burke

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener. — Richard Branson

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind. — Aleksandar Hemon

[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing." — Slash

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile. — Richard Feynman

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad. — Valerie Simpson

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. — Louisa May Alcott

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art. — Harley King

Of old sat Freedom on the heights
The thunders breaking at her feet:
Above her shook the starry lights;
She heard the torrents meet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist. — John Henry Newman

They waited nearly two hours, but it was becoming increasingly clear that, for whatever reason, he wasn't going to show. — Christa Faust

The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to. — Winona LaDuke

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff, — Ronald Breslow