Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.Rainer Maria Rilke
Quotes to Explore
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
Cam Newton -
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Barbara Steele -
I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
Barbet Schroeder -
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis -
I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
F. Murray Abraham -
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
Utah Phillips
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
Victor Vasarely -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel -
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
Sam Kinison
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird -
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis -
Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
Imelda May -
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
Tariq Ali -
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull -
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
Nate Silver -
When we introduced 10-and-under tennis - when we shortened the courts and had smaller rackets and low-compression balls for trying to introduce the sport to youth - a lot of people said we weren't going to succeed.
Katrina Adams -
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
Betty Smith -
Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
Daniel Ortega -
I think I was always joyous, but I don't think I became very aware of positivity and its power until I became older. I always did it naturally, but then I lost it, and it forced me to find it again and appreciate it more.
Keke Palmer -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke