Sara Teasdale Quotes
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Quotes to Explore
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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Know your body, understand your mind, and embrace your spiritual path.
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live.
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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
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A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
