Logo
Quote by Emily Dickinson
Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- youre straightway dangero

Assent — and you are sane — , demur — youre straightway dangerous — , and handled with a Chain — . – Emily Dickinson

Other quotes by Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. – Emily Dickinson

Category:
great
Author
Emily Dickinson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Dissent
category

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. – Sydney J. Harris

Category:
Dissent

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Dissent

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. – Wayne Dyer

Category:
Dissent

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D Eisenhower

Category:
Dissent

Random Quotes

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Medical

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. – Fay Weldon

Category:
Feminism

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself. – Tony Kanal

Category:
cool

My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, youre getting really big laughs. I dont necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. Caddyshack is amazing, but theres not a lot of new Caddyshacks. – Jake Johnson

Category:
amazing