Sara Teasdale Quotes

Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

Sara Teasdale

• Heart
• Song
• Pain
• Powerful
• Daughter

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• 'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Die
  • Nice
  • Ring

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Look
  • Successful

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • America
  • High
  • Health

• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Up
  • Walk
  • Obstacles

• I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Song
  • My Life

• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Battle

• 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

• (On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Work

• Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friendship

• A many-colored light flows from our sun; Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun; The prison modifies the perfect day; But thou hast known such mediums to shun, And cast once more on life a pure white ray. Absorbed in the creations of thy mind, Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Art

• What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?

  

  Colin Powell
  • Thinking

• Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • People
  • America
  • Latin

• Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

  

  George Lois
  • Creativity

• I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

  

  Plutarch
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Pain