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 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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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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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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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
