Theodore Roethke Quotes

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Theodore Roethke

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Peace
  • Day

• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Die

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • You
  • Deep

• I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Coaching

• The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Want
  • Question
  • White

• There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Want
  • Run

• As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Change
  • Cost
  • Climate Change

• I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Education

• I play golf - badly.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Play Golf

• You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Art
  • Think

• If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Star
  • Difficult
  • Street

• I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Sometimes
  • Mood

• The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Individual
  • Lives

• I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Popular
  • Start

• It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Study

• What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Impossible