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.
Quotes to Explore
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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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.
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I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
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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.
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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.
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What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.
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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.
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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.
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As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.
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Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
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I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.
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Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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You've got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way.
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If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.
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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.
