Theodore Roethke Quotes

I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.

Theodore Roethke

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Great
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Fear
  • Support
  • Eyes

• Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don't put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Time
  • Favorite
  • Skin

• I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Forget
  • Forgive

• None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • War

• I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Together
  • Beautiful

• As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

  

  James Wolk
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Die

• What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Great

• And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Children
  • Law

• I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • Children
  • Water
  • Model

• As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.

  

  Jamie S. Miller
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Perspective

• Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  

  Don Adams
  • Serious

• I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Crazy
  • Singing

• Nothing good happens when you jump in the air.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Air
  • Happens
  • Jump

• Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • Real
  • Business

• If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Suffering

• Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to be criminal is to be a bad person.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Bad

• You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Rock

• I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Real
  • Suffering
  • Flying