Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
Here's ivy! - take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
Quotes to Explore
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.
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I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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Here's ivy! - take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
