Theodore Roethke Quotes
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
Quotes to Explore
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
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I think we're lied to about a number of things.
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I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'
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I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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I think Hillary Clinton's probably going to be indicted, is my guess. So anything she can do to deflect from her email scandal and other scandals which are coming down is probably good for her.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.
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I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
