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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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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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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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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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've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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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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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
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Fear cuts deeper than swords.
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My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
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It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
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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.
