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

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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
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• 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
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• 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
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• 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
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Unique
  • Idea
  • Original

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• 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
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• 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
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Married

• 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
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• 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
  • Music
  • Wise
  • Countries

• 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
  • Power
  • Change
  • Bigger

• I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Government
  • Happiness
  • Pursue

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Lie
  • Tools

• You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Business
  • True

• We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Up
  • Vulnerability

• I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • People
  • Real

• Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Present

• 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
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond