Theodore Roethke Quotes
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
Taylor Swift
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
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It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
Kate Chopin
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
Harold Brodkey
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Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
Saint Basil
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Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.
Macy Gray
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So every spirit, as it is most pure,And hath in it the more of heavenly light,So it the fairer bodie doth procureTo habit in, and it more fairely dightWith cheerful grace and amiable sight:For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Edmund Spenser
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A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
Walter Scott
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Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a rovingBy the light of the moon.
Lord Byron
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Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild... whatever! They're more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they're not going to react to situations the same way.
Kate Leth
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I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.
Jim Varney
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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
Donna Karan
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I've remixed lots of other people's songs, from Adele to Electric Light Orchestra to Beyonce, so when my record label said, 'Why don't you give 'Ibiza' to someone to remix?' I said, 'Sure,' because I like the idea of people reimagining art and making something new out of it.
Mike Posner
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We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.
James Turrell
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It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.
Antony Gormley
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I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.
Annie Golden
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There's a lot of young females doing R&B in England who are extremely talented and deserve more light on their stories.
Ella Mai
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I know a lot of people around the world have these problems where there's just no light, no electricity, nothing.
Ann Makosinski
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Look for the light. Look for it in everything. Look for it in yourself, in your children, in your job, and in your dreams. Look for it in the food you eat and in the people you surround yourself with.
Debbie Ford
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
Keanu Reeves
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Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.
Kevin McCarthy
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Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.
Dennis Christopher
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke