Sara Teasdale Quotes
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
Quotes to Explore
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature.
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“... love pales into insignificance when pitted against ambition.”
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Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.
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Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
