Teisti Bird Quotes & Sayings

What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.


— Barbara Strickland

We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity. — Anna M. Aquino

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen

I don't look up to people, I look straight at them — T.C. Elliot

Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative. — Jason Mraz

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson. — Jamie Dornan

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. — Patti Smith

We've got ego's like hairdos. — Ani DiFranco

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States. — Chuck D

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension. — Sallust

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep. — Robert Anton Wilson

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. — William James