Theodore Roethke Quotes
When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
Quotes to Explore
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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For me, I always try to make it to the final.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
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China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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Nicht vor Irrthum zu bewahren, ist die Pflicht des Menschen erziehers; sondern den Irrenden zu leiten, ja ihn seinen Irrthum aus vollen Bechern ausschlürfen zu lassen, das ist Weisheit der Lehrer. Wer seinen Irrthum nur kostet, hält lange damit Haus; er freuet sich dessen als eines seltenen Glücks; aber wer ihn ganz erschöpft, der muß ihn kennenlernen.
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In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
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But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
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The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
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Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real.
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When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
