Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
-
You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
-
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
-
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
-
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
-
With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
-
I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
-
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
-
I don't take myself too seriously.
-
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
-
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
-
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
-
Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
-
I love to take baths.
-
I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
-
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
-
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
-
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
-
There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'
-
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
-
Perhaps some little boys consumed with curiosity to watch their maiden aunts in the bathroom later become inveterate sociologists. This is quite uninteresting. What interests us is the curiosity that grips any sociologist in front of a closed door behind which there are human voices.
-
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
