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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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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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 don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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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.
