Theodore Roethke Quotes

Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

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• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Food
  • Control

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
  • Stage
  • China

• When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Writing
  • Weird

• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • War
  • Understand

• We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • You
  • Lose

• The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • World
  • Work
  • Future

• Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Real
  • Compassion

• At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Time
  • World
  • Law

• When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• Partnering with Rent the Runway's innovative model, combined with their affinity amongst millennials, provides an exciting opportunity for us. Together, we're helping the next generation of luxury consumers discover and fall in love with designer fashion.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Fall

• I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

  

  Al Walser
  • World

• It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • World
  • Business
  • Friends

• You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

  

  Donald Kagan
  • World
  • Live

• The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • World
  • School
  • Responsibility

• People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Always
  • Legend

• I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• All I have to do is what's right for me.

  

  Marianne Faithfull

• There are many different shapes of friendships to be had.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Different
  • Friendships

• Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • World
  • Fall
  • Spirit