Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Quotes to Explore
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
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Look twice before you leap.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
